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4 Things You Can Do for Lent that Don’t Involve Giving Up Chocolate

February 17, 2021 Blog Ash Wednesday 2

Ah, Ash Wednesday – the beginning of Lent, the day we make promises to give something up, the night the preacher applies smudgy ashes on our foreheads to remind us […]

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On This Day The Great Escape

February 26, 2020 Blog Ash Wednesday 4

On this day in 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from Elba, an island off the northwestern coast of Italy. Exiled there in May 1814, the French emperor was permitted to retain […]

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The Grasshoppers of Life

March 7, 2019 Blog Ash Wednesday No comments yet

My dad grew up in a Texas sharecropper’s shack during the Great Depression. He was barely a teenager when the “Grasshopper Wars” began. The winged insects darkened the sky like […]

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Repentance Doesn’t Have To Be Emotional

February 14, 2018 Blog Ash Wednesday No comments yet

In seminary, I was a youth pastor. Every summer during this time, I served as a volunteer at high school church camp. Those were halcyon days spent in small groups, […]

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Three Bible Verses for Ash Wednesday

February 28, 2017 Blog Ash Wednesday No comments yet

No one really knows the exact origins of Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of Lent.  A ritual for the “Day of Ashes” is contained in an 8th-century church document, but […]

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Do We Really Need Lent?

March 4, 2014 Blog Ash Wednesday No comments yet

  Ash Wednesday cometh and, with it, the beginning of Lent. My earliest memories of Lent are rooted in my community theater days in Oklahoma. At a rehearsal on a late-winter evening, […]

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Come, Darkness of Lent

February 13, 2013 Blog 40 Days No comments yet

With Ash Wednesday, the shadowy journey of Lent has begun. Lent is a season that doesn’t bring warm fuzzies like Christmas or Easter. You’re not going to find a Hallmark […]

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