Lent
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Lent Day 3: Altar Pieces
What would it look like for us to lay out the pieces of our lives on the altar each morning and wait for God’s fire to fall upon our hearts? What pieces do we lay at Christ’s feet? Do we lay our garments and palm fronds like the Palm Sunday crowd? Are we fickle followers… Continue reading
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Lent Day 2: Making Room For The New Harvest
I love Leviticus. I know that sounds incredibly weird to most. God continues to show me fractals of Jesus throughout the Old Testament. Layers I could have never discovered on my own are supernaturally peeled back. The Holy Spirit divinely dances over the written word and it is like watching cream rise to the top.… Continue reading
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Lent Day 1: More Than a Lifestyle Makeover
Today marks the first day of Lent, Ash Wednesday. The ash crosses marking many are messy memorial stones of our hopeless humanity redeemed at the cross. When I allow myself to linger in Lent, I am mesmerized by the mercy of The Master, not demoralized by the depth of my depravity. Lent is not a… Continue reading
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“Lent Challenge: Push Publish” February 12
On Ash Wednesday this week, our 8th grade small group met. Right now we are going through some of the amazing chicks in God’s Word. Each girl picked their chick at the end of 2015. As 2016 kicked off, we have had an 8th grader present their “God chick” each Wednesday. Hannah was the topic… Continue reading