This week Tim and Stephen talk about the season of Lent, in the lead up to Easter!

Quote:

• …the season of repentance known to us as Lent... We all have settled down into cozy situations of existence. The problem is that that existence is in a foreign land. To varying degrees, we all have acquiesced to a human condition chronically diseased by sin. For some, the home away from home is plenty sufficient and the vision of a true home becomes too implausible, so it fades from memory. For others, the memory of home still lives, but the risk of the expedition is overwhelming fraught with danger and uncertainty. Truly, one could lose it all in such a venture. There are no guarantees of success. There are others who have made the decisive step. They packed the family and are on the way with the bumper sticker “The kingdom of God or bust.” But as the hardships of the expedition become real, the temptation is to turn around and go back before it is too late. Finally, there are those who left, made the journey, settled into the land and are overtaken by bitter regret and resentment caused by internal bickering, favoritism, corruption, and incompetence. - Keith Ruckhaus, As Though We Were Dreaming: A Commentary on the Songs of Ascents for Lent (Eugene, OR: Resource Publications, 2013), 17–18

Scripture:

• 1 Peter 2:11-12
• Hebrews 11:13-16
• Matthew 6:14-18
• 1 Corinthians 7:5

Books:

• Sacred Seasons: A Family Guide to Center Your Year Around Jesus - Danielle Hitchen