Sin is not just breaking the Father’s rules. Holiness is not just following the Father’s rules. We’re playing a different game.
Category: Lent
LENT #3: The Wells We Dig
The good news is that it is beside our well, the well we have dug out in our desert, that the Lord waits for us. Not on the other side of the desert—waiting for us to figure it out ourselves. No, he’s there. And it’s there—and only there—that the Lord offers to give us a water that will quench our thirst forever, that will give us “eternal life,” the life that come through Jesus, the life we saw in his Transfiguration—the life we’re looking for.
LENT #2: The Path to Transfiguration
The account of the Transfiguration is more than a cool party trick. It reveals a path toward the radiant and transformed life we all want.
LENT #1: Entering the Desert of Testing
Lent is a time to allow ourselves to be tempted, to allow us to see who we truly are, and to allow us to receive the Lord’s restoring life once again.
Palm Sunday – Entering Into the Mystery
During this Holy Week, we enter into the heart of Jesus’ actions: obedience.
5th Sunday of Lent – New Covenant and the Spirit
The work of new creation isn’t some “apocalyptic” event. It happens modestly, in the silence, in hidden places. But it happens through Spirit at work in those who believe.
4th Sunday of Lent – The Davidic Kingdom and Our Infidelity
The great sin of the people is forgetfulness. Time and again, the sin that drives the people into terrible things is forgetfulness. The people’s problem is not a lack of energy, it’s not a lack of willpower, and it’s not even that they don’t think these laws make sense. It’s forgetfulness; forgetfulness of the God who has been faithful to them.
3rd Sunday of Lent – The Desert and Our Thirst
It is beside our well, the well we have dug out in our desert, that the Lord waits for us. And it’s there—and only there—that the Lord offers us water that will quench our thirst forever, that will give us “eternal life,” the life of the age to come: the life that come through Jesus to us, the life we saw in his Transfiguration. That’s what we need. That’s what will quench the thirst you feel.
2nd Sunday of Lent – Abraham and Faith
There is nothing God delights in more than completely and totally entrusting ourselves to Him, and by holding up His end of the bargain that this trust, this faith is not in vain.
1st Sunday of Lent – Noah and Water
We begin a time of preparation to renew the New and Eternal Covenant (or perhaps, to enter into this Covenant for the first time). Covenant is the way God has chosen to renew us and, in fact, all of creation.
The Beggar 