Category: Lent ’08

My Lenten meditations for 2008.

Lent 2008: Palm Sunday – Promises and Commitments

 William  March 16, 2008  0 Comments on Lent 2008: Palm Sunday – Promises and Commitments

The last few weeks I have settled into writing on this blog only on Sundays. The reason is I am spending my free moments writing and finishing my book instead. I have been working in fits and starts on the…

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Lent 2008: Fifth Sunday – Knowledge and Obedience

 William  March 9, 2008  0 Comments on Lent 2008: Fifth Sunday – Knowledge and Obedience

I am reading a book, “The War in Heaven” by Theodore Beale. There is a theme in the book, one among many, that speaks to me, primarily because I have always loved knowledge, the knowing of things. I became an…

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Lent 2008: Day 28 – Death Comes Unexpectedly

 William  March 6, 2008  0 Comments on Lent 2008: Day 28 – Death Comes Unexpectedly

When I got home from work tonight, my wife told me there was a deer laying in a hallow near the old tree stump on the edge of the stream that flows through our back yard. Being a photographer I…

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Lent 2008: Day 27 – I Have Fallen But Gotten Up

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Through a series of events and a lack of due diligence on my part I got behind on my postings. I apologize. God and I have been having discussion about it and yes, it is all on my shoulders. There…

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Lent 2008: Day 20 – A Special Blessing

 William  February 28, 2008  0 Comments on Lent 2008: Day 20 – A Special Blessing

We are at the halfway point, and I must admit it has been hard trying to keep this going. But then that is not unexpected. It is the nature of carrying around the old man. We often think to ourselves,…

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Lent 2008: Day 19 – I’ve Been Tagged

 William  February 27, 2008  3 Comments on Lent 2008: Day 19 – I’ve Been Tagged

Almost half of the way through Lent and I’ve been tagged by Starving Econ Grad over at Bounded Irrationality on a rather strange meme. It has been a while since I did one of these, but then Lent is the…

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Lent 2008: Day 18 – Larry Norman Dies

 William  February 26, 2008  0 Comments on Lent 2008: Day 18 – Larry Norman Dies

Larry Norman, a pioneer Christian rock musician, died on Sunday from a long-standing heart condition. God rest your soul, Larry. I grew up in the faith with Larry Norman. When I first came to Christ, the local Christian FM station…

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Lent 2008: Day 17 – God Centered Days

 William  February 25, 2008  0 Comments on Lent 2008: Day 17 – God Centered Days

Today is Monday; not a Mama and Poppa’s Monday, but a fresh start to our week of labors. Because of my post on Saturday about Weekend Warriors, I am making a concerted effort this week to make God the primary…

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Lent 2008: Third Sunday – Sunday, Sunday

 William  February 24, 2008  0 Comments on Lent 2008: Third Sunday – Sunday, Sunday

Back in the day (a euphamism for older people’s youth) the Mama’s and Poppa’s had a song, Monday, Monday. The first day of the workweek was a diffifult day, when you didn’t know where the week, or even that day…

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Lent 2008: Day 16 – Weekend Warriors

 William  February 23, 2008  0 Comments on Lent 2008: Day 16 – Weekend Warriors

Are you a weekend warrior? As a Christian, that would apply to those of us who put God on the back burner during the workweek and then try to get energized, mostly due to Sunday Services, on the weekend. We…

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