

The Purpose of Lent
If we’re not careful, Lent can be a season of trying to prove how strong we are on our own, rather than reminding us of our absolute dependence on God.
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If we’re not careful, Lent can be a season of trying to prove how strong we are on our own, rather than reminding us of our absolute dependence on God.
Jesus unites things that seem to be opposites, and because he can unite them he has a glory, beauty, and strength that leaves everybody else behind.
Temptation is not a choice between actions, but between identities. It raises the question of who and whose we are.
We have sin in our eyes, idols in our hearts, phones in our hands–and we have come to worship. Through Ezekiel we see God’s answer to a people who are physically present, but whose attention lies elsewhere.
Through the story of Nicodemus conversing with Jesus we can begin to grasp the mystery of the Trinity, drawing us into the perfect love and unity of God.
We are judgmental creatures, and that is a great cause of conflict and division in this world. Christianity offers a unique solution to this universal human problem through God’s surprising judgement of humanity.
Maybe you’re feeling that your heart is incapable of doing what you know it should do, or at least what you know that it used to do. So when scripture commands of us joy and thanksgiving, what do we do?
“Staying connected to the vine” and “producing fruit” isn’t about our effort. It’s about our identity.
More than ever before, there is science to back up what good poets and authors have always known: the world is hungry for the love of their fathers. But even before the poet, it’s the Bible that lets us know there is a father hunger in this world.
What has happened to the Ephesians (and us) to cause such a difference between being hopeless aliens and strangers, to now being called citizens and members of the household of God?