How’s your Lenten journey going? Has it slipped by without notice, or have you felt your relationship with God being refreshed and renewed? I’m a tad late posting this blog this week. I attended a three day retreat entitled, “The Courage to Live Authentically,” Monday through Wednesday. I’ll write a later blog describing my experience. […]
Month: March 2014
We Have a Story to Tell
The bookshelves are full of tomes that condemn the Christian Church and predict its demise. The decline in membership is proof positive that the end is near. In this milieu, it is refreshing to read a book that believes the Christian faith can and will have a positive impact on our society and the world. […]
Got Lent?
We’ve progressed 1 ½ weeks into the season of Lent. In a previous post I shared four wholistic Lenten habits that I am cultivating during the Lenten season. Are you doing anything in particular to make these forty days a significant time in your life? I promised that I’d report my progress […]
Ashes and a Cross: Four Wholistic Lenten Habits
The excesses of Fat Tuesday are but a memory. Ash Wednesday ashes have been washed away. Lent has begun and a majority of Christians have returned to the status quo. Is that all there is, though, until Easter? Really! No, there’s got to be something more! The imposition of ashes is not my favorite Christian […]
4 Lessons I Learned from a Blind Man
Teachers come in all shapes and sizes. My latest teacher was a blind man who lived in Jerusalem a little over two thousand years ago. His story is told in the gospel of John 9:1-41. He might be a little old and a little far away, but he sure had something to say to me. […]