Day 33: Jonah and Ninevah
For the next few days, we are going to explore episodes in the Christian Bible associated with the number forty, which are also traditionally associated with Lent. Then…
You show me yours, and I’ll show you mine
Many contemporary Christians point to the “early church” as a community of leaderless, purposefully poor communists who found their true identities in home-cooked meals and quiet times of prayer. But…
Day 34: Israel in the Desert
For the next few days, we are going to explore episodes in the Christian Bible associated with the number forty, which are also traditionally associated with Lent. The…
Day 35: Christ in the wilderness
For the next few days, we are going to explore episodes in the Christian Bible associated with the number forty, which are also traditionally associated with Lent. Then…
Day 36: Watchfulness
Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you suddenly like a trap. For it…
Day 37: Self-Denial
When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their…
Day 38: Prayer
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who…
Sermon Notes March 2
Our good friend and local artist and art teacher, Heidi Rhodes, has been taking notes on our current series, Riskingod. Check out the corresponding passage: Mark 11:1-11 Click here…
Day 39: Repentance
God is light; in Him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not…
Day 40: Ash Wednesday
May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. Neither circumcision nor…
What is Lent all about, anyway?
Today is Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday), the last day before the Lenten season of the Christian calendar. My first exposure to Lent was with the 2002 film 40 Days…
Sermon Notes February 23
Our good friend and local artist and art teacher, Heidi Rhodes, has been taking notes on our current series, Riskingod. Check out the corresponding passage: Mark 10.32-45 Click…