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Tag Archives: Lent
No Taste
Do you make godliness taste good? Matthew 5:13 (MSG) You’re here to be salt-seasoning that brings out the God-flavors of this earth. If you lose your saltiness, how will people taste godliness? Tasteless? I hope not! I want to be … Continue reading
Bitter Taste
Would you eat horseradish cheesecake? Decorate cookies with brussel-sprout frosting? Isaiah 5:20 (NIV) Woe to those who call evil good and good evil . . . who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Folks can claim something evil is … Continue reading
Staggering Taste
Are you like the people in this psalm, staggering under the weight of your worries? Psalm 60:2-3 (NIV) You have shaken the land and torn it open; mend its fractures, for it is quaking. You have shown your people desperate times; you … Continue reading
Don’t Taste
Who’s telling you “don’t eat”? Colossians 2:21-22 (VOICE) You hear, “Don’t handle this! Don’t taste that! Don’t even touch it!” but everything they are obsessed about will eventually decay with use. These rules are just human commands and teachings. Let God … Continue reading
Sweet Taste
Wisdom is to my soul as dessert is to my tongue. Proverbs 24:13 (NIV) Wisdom is like honey for you. Sweet wisdom, please. And supersize it!
Committed Fast
Paul and Barnabas fasted, along with church leaders. Acts 14:23 (ESV) And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed. Paul, Barnabas and … Continue reading
Humble Fast
Ezra 8:21 (NIV) I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him . . . Why a humble fast? “There is a treatise by an old Puritan, called, ‘The soul fattening institution of … Continue reading
Wrong Fast
The people complained and God answered. Isaiah 58:3-4 (MSG) “Why do we fast and you don’t look our way? Why do we humble ourselves and you don’t even notice?” “Well, here’s why: The bottom line on your ‘fast days’ is … Continue reading
Why Fast?
Zechariah 7:4-5 (NIV) Then the word of the Lord Almighty came to me: “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for the past seventy years, was it really … Continue reading
Secret Fast
Matthew 6:16 (NTE) When you fast, don’t be gloomy like the play-actors. They make their faces quite unrecognizable, so that everyone can see they’re fasting. I’m telling you the truth: they have received their reward in full. Notice what Jesus … Continue reading