An Open Letter: Your plans for Lent…

Dear Baptist Spirituality  readers, Lent is coming up rather quickly.  It begins on Ash Wednesday, February 22nd. Lent is the time in which we follow Jesus into the wilderness and place our trust on God in a renewed spirit of faith.  It consists of 40 days (Sundays not included) that lead up to Holy WeekContinue reading “An Open Letter: Your plans for Lent…”

Suffering for Christ allows us to become “fully human”

Tucked in the middle of the book of Acts, somewhere around the fourteenth chapter, is a story about Paul’s mission trip to Lystra.  There, he miraculously heals a man who couldn’t walk from birth.  The locals claimed that Paul was a god, and they worshiped him against his will. That was, until a group ofContinue reading “Suffering for Christ allows us to become “fully human””