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A quick reflection on my Lenten journey.
I love the journey of Lent and the joy of Easter. If you adopted some form of discipline during this season of repentance and reflecting on Christ’s passion, I pray that God has blessed you richly. Personally, mine has been a bit of a roller coaster ride. I chose to work on two things: praising God and resting. In terms of praising God, I have been spending prayer time in my prayer closet everyday and write out prayers of praise as part of that devotional time. Specifically, for my prayers I have been beginning with telling God I Love Him, honoring God for who God is, and honoring God for what God does. Working at this for almost 40 days now has been an extremely enriching experience. … Read entire article »
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Lessons from Lent
This year for Lent I crafted and led an online Bible mentoring program for 3 college students. I have wanted to develop a ministry like this for some time. My goal was to spend at least 30-60 minutes a day on it. I dubbed it the Practical Disciple Bible Coaching program. So here is what it looked like. PD BiBle Coaching in a Nutshell Weekly emailed learning modules Process-oriented content i.e. provide tools for equipping rather than just information A password protected website of resources, links, modules, etc. A conference call system for coaching Multimedia content, i.e. video, audio, and text Both embedded and downloadable media for easy access. Action-the oriented content So how did it go? Putting together the initial structure was a huge undertaking that I had to pull off in under a week and … Read entire article »
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As Lent draws to a close: evaluate and grow
We have only a few days of Lent left. Many of you adopted disciplines or gave some thing up. I hope that has gone very well for you. If not, you can still benefit from the experience. I have discovered that there is as much learning to be done in reflecting upon your Lenten experience afterwards as there is during it. This is particularly true if you had a bad experience or feel you failed. I highly encouraged you this weekend or on Easter day to reflect on the season of Lent and journal about your experience. Journaling will push you to clarify what you have learned. Here are 10 questions to consider. On a scale of 1 to 10 how would you rate your … Read entire article »
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New Lenten disciplines I have encountered
I have two noteworthy Lenten disciplines that I have encountered in the last week. First, a young man in our church has chosen to do a speed read of the New Testament during Lent. He is busting his way through the entire New Testament in 40 days, a rather admirable pursuit. One person asked him what he was getting out of this. He said, he was realizing that some people are just wrong. People quote are defend things as being from the New Testament that are often times quite erroneous. As I heard him says this, it reminded me of what I once told a group of lay people in a preaching class I was leading. Always do your own work first. Read the scriptures for yourself and make as … Read entire article »
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How do I take a mundane chore and dedicate it to Christ?
Last night I received the following email from PD reader Angie in Missouri and wanted to share my reply with all my readers because she has a great question. Yay – Lent starts tomorrow! I am full of anticipation for Lent! It is an incredible feeling. :) There’s this guy I know who’s been talking it up for practically all of 2010! It’s got me all excited. :) Anyway, I need a little help with what I want to do for Lent. I want to do something along the lines of your 40 days of 40 bags of clutter. I want to spend 40 days working on getting the basement organized. That space just upsets me b/c it is so chaotic and things are in boxes and just no organization what-so-ever. I can’t … Read entire article »
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New Lenten Activities and Suggestions for Using Them
I have added two lenten activities to the Lent page making a total of 10 downloadable handouts of lenten activities for you to pick from during Lent. The two newest ones are: Faith P.E.G.S. In the spring of 2009 I was inspired to take time everyday to Prayer, Encourage, Give and Study; hence, the acronym P.E.G.S.. You can read the original post about that by clicking here. I found that a little work in each of these areas daily strengthened my faith and relationship to God tremendously. The Examen. The examen is a nearly 500 year old practice of reflection at the end of the day that originated with the monk, St. Ignatius. This model of reflection gives you serious pause to consider where God was in your day and … Read entire article »
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