Lent: What are you gonna do?
So often, around this time, I hear the question “so what are you going to give up for lent?” so here’s a different question. What are you going to do for Lent? Maybe you could do something for the first time. Or do something more. give more… spend more time with… share more with… see [...]
Good Friday
The tears of a mother who has lost her son, Naked, bleeding in front of her. The tears of memories, regrets, laughter and pain. Watching the life drain from his eyes. The tears of a disciple who has lost a friend. His hope, his one, his all. The tears of broken promises, true community [...]
The product or the process?
During Holy Week (the week leading up to Easter) our church runs a series of evening services. I am leading the Good Friday evening service. One of my ideas is to put together a modern interpretation of the passion using a news report template. The news presenters will ‘break’ the story to the public and [...]
Stumble the Future
I stumbled across this website today that lets you send an e-mail to your email address in the future. I immediately thought it was an interesting tool for youth work but then started to think what an interesting tool it was for anyone. If I could send an e-mail to myself in 2037, what would [...]
Washing the dishes
Yesterday morning I was getting myself ready for college. get washed. eat breakfast. do my ‘lent’ time. i finished my breakfast and added the bowl and empty cup to the pile of dishes that had gathered from the night before. where do they all come from? I looked at the dishes and thought, “i’d like [...]
one sentence
There is a great site called ‘one sentence’ that you can visit here the point is to tell your story in one sentence. Here’s one I saw this morning. I realized my family’s odd list of priorities when, while standing in the kitchen under the leaking roof, my father informed me he needed a ride [...]
And the walls came tumbling down
It’s only the start of the lent but I have still managed to break my promise. We had some family staying over during the weekend and I didn’t get a chance to get up early on Friday or Saturday to continue “my lent”. Hopefully that’s the last time it will happen. Today, I was reading [...]
Lent, chopped willies and holy ground
Today has been a good day. I’ve been slowly working my way through the OT and I am now at Joshua. I got up, as planned, at 7am this morning to start Lent. To give up some sleep and spend some time with God. Those that know me, know that I’m not generally one for [...]
Lent
I’ve never bothered with lent. Never saw the point of it. I guess I focused too much on the legalistic side of ‘giving something up’. Most of the people I knew who took part chose to cut out food of some kind (and that was really just an excuse to go on a diet without [...]
