Lent as Training in Resilience, Practice of Resistance
The Progressive Redneck Preacher has some good tips for his fellow Progressives about approaching Lent. Here is a little sample: This week begins the season of...
Tag: Lent
Ash Wednesday a Time of Reflection
Ash Wednesday is not just a time to meditate on our mortality or to confess our individual sin and failings, but it is also a time when we should focus on our s...
Shrove Tuesday
The practice on the day before Lent begins is to use up all of the items that will be fasted from during the season of Lent. This day is known as Shrove...
The Entry of the King
There is no doubt in my mind that the consistent message of Jesus was love and doing things for others. There is no doubt in my mind that this message was unco...
Why Palm Branches
The last Sunday of the Season of Lent is called Passion/Palm Sunday. Traditionally the story of the passion of Christ and the events leading up to the crucifix...
The Waiting Cross
Then he took the twelve aside and said to them, “See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written about the Son of Man by the prophets will be ...
You Feed Them
There are many miracle stories in the Scriptures that if we look at them, a little closer may not always be what they seem to be on the surface. The sto...
The Battle with Temptation
In the previous chapters Luke gave us a glimpse of some of the greatest milestones in the life of Jesus and today’s story is one of the greatest. When Jesus was...
Mary of Egypt a Saint for all of us
The 5th Sunday of Great Lent is set aside to commemorate St. Mary of Egypt. Born in the 4th century this day is to remind us of the great power of reconciliati...
O Faithless Generation
We have now passed the halfway point of Great Lent and our focus is turned toward faith, or should I say the lack of faith. The middle of anything can be a ver...