Your exhaustion may not be a sign of weakness of faith. It may be the fruit of enthusiasm. It is Lent. Fast from your fever. Embrace the exhaustion. Curb your inner enthusiast and cling to Christ.
If the church is going to speak to people weary of religion, it will not be by offering better techniques or louder certainty, but by daring to say what Paul so plainly said: Christ is enough.
Surveying Scripture, it is an immense comfort to know we’re not alone in our sinfulness.

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On second thought: Keep Lent, but sacrifice your concept of it.
Due to his self-reliance, King Zedekiah ended his days as a lowly prisoner in Babylon.
Kleinig continually directs the reader's attention to Christ and his gifts.
In response to the Lord's undeserved love, Manasseh looked to him as the true God.
God’s people get the warm feast of victory, while God’s meal is prepared cold.
How intentional will we be about utilizing gospel spaces that already inescapably communicate?
Uzziah was showing the most dangerous kind of pride – a pride wrapped up under the guise of religious service.
Lent isn't simply a season. It's the Christian life in microcosm.
This is the third installment in our Lenten series, Through the Tombs of the Kings, where Steve Kruschel explores God’s faithfulness to Judah’s kings—and to us—through life, death, and the burial of his Son.
We are called to believe in the church even when we don’t believe in the church.
This is the second installment in our Lenten series, Through the Tombs of the Kings, where Steve Kruschel explores God’s faithfulness to Judah’s kings—and to us—through life, death, and the burial of his Son.
Is there a significant difference between changing your mind and doing penance? Absolutely.