Lent (264)
  1. The post-Reformation observance of Lent is both commemorative and penitential
  2. The word of faith means the word that declares us righteous and gives us Christ’s own righteousness as a gift. At the start of the Passion Season, these texts call us deny ourselves and our pride that comes by our obedience to the Law, and to cast all of our sins, failures, and weaknesses onto Christ, to trust Him alone for our salvation.
  3. There are two ways to think about what’s happening when someone is tempted. The first is to imagine temptation as enticement toward something bad and wrong. This is probably the more common of the two. But there’s another way of thinking about it. Temptation could also be seen as encouragement away from something good and right.
  4. The Father uses this last festival of Epiphany, the Transfiguration, to announce one more time to us just who Jesus is: His beloved Son, the Chosen One
  5. The greatest joy of Lent is failing at it only to find Jesus has already done it for us.
  6. The Law must attack because nothing outside of Christ can enter Heaven—nothing!
  7. Jesus’ sacrificial death is the perfect sacrifice because He is sinless, the spotless Lamb, and it is for you.
  8. God has given us a way out of our plight of “ashes to ashes, dust to dust.” It is the way of the cross.
  9. On episode FORTY-SIX of Let the Bird Fly! Wade, Mike, and Peter sit down to discuss the season of Lent.
  10. Every day for the baptized is a good day to die."
  11. What would be a fitting thing to give up, especially during the season of Lent?
  12. In the twinkling of that eye the perishable will become imperishable, and our bodies will be changed and become more glorious than we ever could have imagined.