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Category Archives: Lent
Morning Prayer: Awe and Gratitude
Good morning, Lord. I thank You for this Lenten season, when we remember Your sacrifice on the cross. It’s so easy, in the busyness of my daily routine, to forget the biggest event in human history. Engrave the truth of … Continue reading
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Fasting and Fruit
Are you fasting from anything during Lent? Joel 2:12 (NIV) “Even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.” “As our bodies grow weaker for lack of food during the season … Continue reading
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Tagged fasting, fruit of the Spirit, Gelasian Sacramentary, JOel 2:12
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Hungry for Bread
Jesus, the living Word, fasted for 40 days. Luke 4:1-4 (ESV) And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he … Continue reading
Divine Intervention … at the Right Time
Romans 5:6 (NLT) When we were utterly helpless, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners. Divine intervention, at just the right time. It the reason for the Lenten season.
Morning Prayer: The Cross
Good morning, Lord. In our churches, with their polished and lighted crosses, it’s easy to forget the ugliness of Your cross. Forgive me for my lopsided focus: seeing Your love and forgetting Your holiness, seeing the empty tomb and forgetting … Continue reading
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Lenten Bliss
“What wondrous love is this that caused the Lord of bliss to bear the dreadful curse for my soul, for my soul.” Christian folk hymn, 1800s Bliss — perfect happiness, complete joy. Jesus, the “Lord of bliss,” went through the … Continue reading
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Lenten Beauty
“In that old rugged cross, stained with blood so divine, a wondrous beauty I see, for ’twas on that old cross Jesus suffered and died, to pardon and sanctify me.” George Bennard, 1913 The horrible, beautiful cross of Christ … … Continue reading
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Lenten Vision
Be Thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart; be all else but naught to me, save that Thou art; be Thou my best thought in the day and the night, both waking and sleeping, Thy presence my light. Irish … Continue reading
Lenten Love
“Was it for crimes that I have done, he groaned upon the tree? Amazing pity! Grace unknown! And love beyond degree!” Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed Isaac Watts, 1702 John 15:13 (NLT) There is no greater love than to … Continue reading
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Lenten Music
From childhood to the present, I’ve heard and sung old hymns over and over. The first few notes or words can bring the whole hymn to mind. This week I’ll be highlighting the music of Lent–that is, some of the … Continue reading
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