follow the good

Feb 16, 2015

I’m thinking ahead a couple of days to Lent which begins this week on Ash Wednesday. I heard someone once say that Lent was a kind of “boot camp” for the Christian, a time when the one who seeks to follow Christ becomes much more driven to overcome temptation. I must admit that the boot-camp image doesn’t do much for me and in this brief video clip I outline the beauty of Lent as a time of waking up to what it is that I truly seek…

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