Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, 36 like servants waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him. Luke 12:35-36 Welcome to the final week of our Lent: empty to full study. We are so thankful for […]
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Study, Lent: empty to full
Lent: empty to full, prayer
At its simplest, prayer is communicating with God. Prayer is the language of our hopes, dreams, and ambitions. The Bible teaches that we should pray without ceasing, in good times and bad, when we are tempted, and when we are under attack. While God can do whatever He wants without the help of man, in […]
Lent: a season of empty to full, examen
Welcome to week 2 of Lent: a season of empty to full. This week our focus is examen and self-denial—two of our favorite subjects! I know there’s nothing we like better than taking a deep look at ourselves (warts and all) and saying no to our flesh. While these spiritual disciplines may be uncomfortable, they […]
Lent: a season of empty to full, simplicity
“For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you.” 2 Corinthians 1:12 I like simple. Simple pleasures, simple foods, simple days. A flower in an unexpected place. […]
Lent: empty to full, Ash Wednesday
Lent is a season of opposites. We weep so we may rejoice. We sacrifice so we may receive. We empty so we can be filled. In Hebrew the word for empty transliterates as reyqam, which means in vain, empty, idle, without affect. I must admit I have been reyqam — vainly focused on myself, idly wasting […]
