Unique among friends: Creative fasting ideas for Ash Wednesday

This week is an important week in the Christian year: We begin the journey of Lent on Ash Wednesday, March 9th.  Lent is a period of forty days that leads up to Holy Week. Specifically, Lent is a time to travel with Christ through the wilderness of conversion and transformation.  Remember the story in MatthewContinue reading “Unique among friends: Creative fasting ideas for Ash Wednesday”

Being a people of missional vision (part 4/4)

This is the last sermon in a four-part series entitled, “A People of Vision,” at Trinity Baptist Church in January 2011. “But how are they to call on one in whom they have not believed?  And how are they to believe in one of whom they have never heard?  And how are they to hearContinue reading “Being a people of missional vision (part 4/4)”