Understanding Sabbath as a Lifestyle – Sacred Structures by Jim Baker
What does Sabbath as a lifestyle look like? It is a set of spiritual practices that can be practiced at any moment throughout our day.
Easter & Lent
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The Wilderness of Lent
While the Lenten season holds a form of anticipation, it holds less Joyful anticipation than the Advent season. Recently reflecting on Lent as more of a wilderness experience, I wondered at the difference between the expectancy of Advent and the almost remorseful feeling of the wilderness of Lent.
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Lent, food rules, and liberty
By Elizabeth Prata Romans 14:13-23, about food may seem archaic, because Christians have been released from Hebrew food rules for 2000 years. But food rules have been going strong in the Catholic f…
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The Last Supper Explained and Why It’s Important for You – Inspiration Photography and Christian Devotions
What is the true meaning behind the Last Supper? The history and theology of the last supper explained and analysis uncovering this mystery.
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Give Up Nothing for Lent! – Lin Wilder
Fasting isn’t giving something up. Instead, it’s gaining mastery over our appetites, over our bodies’ need for food. It’s about emptying so that we can be filled with what we each hunger for: Him.
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Downward Ascent: What I’m Giving Up For Lent
I don't give up for Lent out of obligation. I give up for the sake of joy. So I look myself and the eye and descend, to the cross.
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New Fathom Event ‘The Thorn’ a Visually Dynamic Portrayal of the Life, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ
Known as the play where Cirque du Soleil meets the Passion, The Thorn tells the transformative story of Christ’s life, crucifixion, and resurrection through the lens of aerial acts, movement arts, and modern dance.
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Four Thoughts on Lent
1. Lent is a Christian tradition dating back to before the fourth century. Lent - derived from a word meaning “spring” - was a time of year used as preparation for the feast of Easter. Athanasius wrote a series of letters to the churches concerning feasts and other topics. He mentions a forty-day fast preceding Easter in the second festal letter in 330 AD. Ten years later, in 340 AD, Athanasius wrote to churches in Egypt instructing them to “proclaim the fast of forty days to the brethren, an...
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Adieu April: Another Month Has Gone By
Another month has gone by. It happens all the time, but these days I am very aware that the months turn into years.
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Making A Life Changing Decision
Our scripture text for today is part of the Easter story. Pontius Pilate needed to make the toughest decision of his life. He was caught between the advice of h
