A Precious Offering
What is the nature of a precious offering? Several years ago, I got to thinking about the practice of giving something up for Lent. My daddy retired from the Marine Corps in New Orleans, LA, and that city, with its Catholic roots, really embraces the church calendar. Everyone I ...
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Taught by God
Every Wednesday, during Lent, we are participating in a Lenten Curation of Before & After Images, linking up with MeetMeintheMiddleProject.com. The Meet Me in the Middle Project is a creative way to share the truth of the gospel on blogs, Pinterest, and Instagram, through Before&After ...
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Lent is Time in Between
Lent is time in between. It is fasting between feasts—Epiphany and Easter. It comes at the end of winter and—in some places (places not like Arizona)—the darkness of Lent mirrors the darkness near the end of winter. Easter and Spring are coming and they mean rebirth and new life...but in Lent, we're ...
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We Repent during Lent
When we want to study the best way to repent during Lent, we can look to King David— he was a man after God's own heart (Acts 13:22). In other words, his heart resembled his Heavenly Father's heart. After the rebellion of King Saul (1 Samuel 13:14), God sought and found, "A man after my own heart, ...
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Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust
We are the walking dead. No, not zombies. But the clock is ticking. From the moment we are born, our bodies are wasting away. We were born to die.
As a father shows compassion to his children,
so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.
For he knows our frame;
he remembers that we are ...
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Happy FAT Monday!
Happy Fat Monday!
Did you know it's Lundi Gras — Fat Monday? Ok, unless you're from New Orleans, you might not know about Lundi Gras. So, how about Mardi Gras? Ever heard of Fat Tuesday?
In New Orleans, you get a real sense of the season of feasting — the time between Epiphany, on January 6, ...
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