Today is Ash Wednesday, a day that begins the season of Lent for Christians.  There are 40 days (minus Sundays) until Easter, and the season of Lent is a time for Christians everywhere to prepare themselves to celebrate that glorious day.  Tonight, I will observe the beginning of the Lent season with my congregation by [...]

Observing Lent is a new thing for me (see “My Rookie Year of Observing Lent”), but the concept of observing the Sabbath is not.  I’ve been wrestling with how to make the Sabbath a day of rest, recreation, and spiritual focus for years now.  I’ve had some success in leading my family in this but [...]

Lent.  The only thing I knew this word to mean for much of my life was the stuff tucked away safely in my belly button.  I had no idea that Lent was something that many Christians around the world observe every year around Easter.  When I got married, I lived in Milwaukee – a city [...]