Tag: fasting

• Ash Wednesday – 2023

  Today is the first day of Lent. A primary activity of the Lenten season (not the only, but primary) is fasting. Christ-followers should fast. Jesus clearly expects it of us for he tells us, But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, that your fasting may not be seen by others but…

  Jamie Greening

  February 22, 2023

  All, Bible, Church, Preaching

  Ash Wednesday, fasting, Isaiah 58, Lent, Lent 2023

• The Lentiest–A Meditation for Palm Sunday 2020

  No preaching today, so I left you a meditation to think on.

  Jamie Greening

  April 5, 2020

  All, Church, Culture

  2020, COVID-19, Easter, fasting, Lent, Palm Sunday

• ASH WEDNESDAY AND LENT

  Why are Lent and Ash Wednesday a good idea?  This is a post from a previous year that I am re-posting today because, obviously, it is Ash Wednesday that, for me, helps answer some of that question.    ********************************** This is the week that we Christians who follow a liturgical pattern of the year mark…

  Jamie Greening

  March 5, 2014

  Bible, Church, Culture

  Ash Wednesday, ashes, church, death, fasting, Jesus, Lent, mortality, prayer, repentance, Sin

• ADVICE ON THE SPIRITUAL LIFE

  So I pick up with my “advice” themed blog posts.  I’ve got about four or five more in mind before I move on completely. What exactly do we call what I am about to give advice on?  Years ago people in my faith tradition would have called it ‘holiness,’ but that whole concept I think…

  Jamie Greening

  January 27, 2014

  All, Bible, Church, Culture

  accountability, Baptist, Bible, Bible reading, fasting, Jesus, prayer, spiritual life, spiritual transformations, spirituality, worship