We will never see the beauty of spiritual reality without God’s illumination. We are guilty, corrupt, hard, ignorant and blind without the awakening, enlivening, softening, humbling, purifying, and enlightening work […]
The vestments and linens of the church during Lent, are characterized by a very dark purple to demonstrate the penitential nature of the season, with a focus on the need […]
Christ is not a reservoir but a spring. His life is continual, active and ever passing on with an outflow as necessary as its inflow. If we do not perpetually […]
That the ashes that are left over from Ash-Wednesday are not thrown away, they are mixed with dirt and sand and used at burials. (That is why the Priest says […]
We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to redeem. We receive his poured-out […]
Ash Wednesday is the first day of the season of Lent – a period/time which the Christian Church uses for prayer, fasting, and spiritual preparation for Easter, in which we […]
“If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation. Like the old knights in […]