by Lane | Lent, Spiritual Disciplines, Spiritual Practices
Questions to ponder and pray over during our Lenten fast: What is the hunger beneath the hunger about? What do I thirst for? How have I been filling my hunger/thirst apart from God? What is God up to in this time of fasting? Where do I hope God doesn’t ask me to deny...
by Lane | Lent, Spiritual Disciplines, Spiritual Practices
We fast to feast on God. Jesus sets fasting as the example in John 4 where He says, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about,” and “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me.” In Matthew 4, He says, “We don’t live by bread alone, but by every...
by Lane | Lent, Spiritual Disciplines, Spiritual Practices
Lent invites us to explore. Ash Wednesday marks birth into a season punctuated with life and death: the life of Christ across thirty-three stunning earth years, Holy Week’s heftiness, the suffering road to the Cross, and His grace-offered death. Lent leads us along...
by Lane | Spiritual Disciplines, Spiritual Practices
My beloved Child, You know, I knit you together in your mother’s womb. You are fearfully and wonderfully made. (Psalm 139: 13-14) I had great fun designing your skin in such a way that you could feel the grains of sand between your toes, the roughness of rocks and...
