by | Apr 12, 2019 | Homepage, Lent-2019, Local Missions |
Week Six – Fasting Spending The Common Thread by Stephanie Capps Throughout Lent, we have covered food, waste, clothing, media, and possessions. I think it is fitting to end with spending because, when you really think about it, it is the common thread between...
by | Apr 5, 2019 | Homepage, Lent-2019, Local Missions |
Week Five – Fasting Possessions by Stephanie Capps Growing up, there were paths through my house. We had a path through the living room to the couch, a path leading us to the cabinets in the kitchen, and paths down the hallway to our bedrooms. Sometimes I had to...
by | Mar 28, 2019 | Homepage, Lent-2019, Local Missions |
Week Four – Fasting Media by Lindsay Stevenson As we journey through Lent together and focus intentionally on these different topics and fasts, we look inward at our individual hearts and ways of thinking that need renewal. While we do this internal work...
by | Mar 22, 2019 | Homepage, Lent-2019, Local Missions |
Week Three – Fasting Waste by Mick Schulte I was so excited when Curtis and CJ said they were adding “Waste” as one of the Lent fasts this season. I don’t think it’s a typical topic for the church to focus on, and I’ve never heard it included in a church-wide...
by | Mar 15, 2019 | Homepage, Lent-2019, Local Missions |
Week Two – Fasting Clothing by Laura Jasmine We tend to envision fasting as a practice of recentering our hearts around God rather than some other object (in this case, clothing). We often treat clothing as an idol, coping mechanism, and giver of self-worth,...
by | Mar 8, 2019 | Homepage, Lent-2019, Local Missions |
Week One – Fasting Food by Katie Anderson It feels fitting to begin this Lent season with the stereotypical fast – food. For me and maybe for you too, my early understanding of fasting had very little do to with God and much more to do with dieting or even...
