Tag: Lent

Stay Holy, Stay Home: The Fig Tree

.Reading time 8 minutes.

As we enter into the second day of Holy Week and our fifth week of social distancing, let us be reminded of what comes with this season: new life! The Springtime trees and flowers cry out this message with glorious colors and perfumes. Today we will read about a fruit tree that bore a flourish of green but was missing something big.

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What this Lent season is asking of us

.Reading time 9 minutes.

We are officially ten days into Lent, the season to remember Christ entering the desert for forty days and forty nights. Lent is traditionally a season for the church to engage in spiritual practices such as fasting, prayer and almsgiving. Lent is strongly themed around self-denial and remembering our finite mortality. Just as Jesus fasted for those forty days, he was hungry, expressing his most basic human need: food. Although Jesus was also God, his choice to take on our humanity came with limitations.

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Lent Video Series – Isaiah 53

.Reading time 1 minute.

Welcome to our Isaiah 53 video series for Lent. Although Hidden Word is not a Bible study I believe it is important for us to understand the scriptures that we are memorizing and meditating on. I believe it will make memorizing the passage that much easier when we can also comprehend it!

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Giving Up TV

.Reading time 6 minutes.

It was 2015 and I was stuck in a job where I felt like someone’s “minion” rather than an employee. My husband was working swing shift and we only had a few windows of time to see each other each week. We did what we could do to spend quality time together but they were few and far between.

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