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By Sharon at SheWorships

As you probably know, yesterday was Ash Wednesday, which marks the start of the Lenten season. Whenever this season rolls around I always make time to consider how I will observe Lent, but this year has been a bit different. I have also spent an unusual amount of time reflecting on how I observed Lent last year.

If you’re one of my newer readers, last year I observed Lent by fasting from blogging. You can check out my explanation for that decision here, which probably conveys what a big deal it was for me. Any bloggers knows that the fastest way to lose your readership is to blog sporadically. But I knew it was the right decision. I needed to place my writing before the throne of God and recalibrate my motives.

And it did just that. More Here...

By Nic Don at Theopolitical

A rallying cry in the Reformed community is the place of the gospel in the sermon.  According to a widespread and conventional view in the Reformed churches, a sermon is only properly called a sermon if its subject is the gospel.  Any passage of scripture preached on must be mined to find its oblique reference to Christ.  This led Nietzsche to cynically applaud Christians for their ability to find a cross in every piece of wood, and a resurrection in every cave.

But Luther was emphatic on this point, and when his parishioners asked him why we preached the gospel every single week, he responded that “I preach the gospel every week because every week you forget it.”

So mainstream Evangelical preachers like Rick Warren are criticized for “not preaching the gospel.”  I am not familiar enough with Warren’s sermons to comment on this point, though I plan to download a few from the website to listen to and hear for myself.  But I would not be surprised if I discover in them aspects of the gospel that my Calvinist brothers and sisters would not recognize as the gospel. More Here...

"...For you were made from dust,
      and to dust you will return."
                    - Genesis 3:19(b)

Today, as you go about your day, you might see something a bit strange on the foreheads of some of the people around you.  You might think it is a smudge of dirt and suggest your friend go wash his or her face.  In actuality, it is a cross drawn in ashes.  Today is, after all, Ash Wednesday.

Ash Wednesday is a tradition celebrated throughout many factions of Christendom, a day that marks the beginning of the Christian season of Lent.  During this season, many Christians pray, fast and sacrifice something of perceived importance -- such as a favorite snack, trips to Starbucks, smoking or, for the more technologically addicted, Facebook -- as a reminder of the sacrifice Jesus made on the cross on Good Friday. More Here...

1. Blogging is a time sucker. I have developed this uncanny ability to block out all sounds and happenings around me, to the point where my kids wonder if something’s wrong with me when they find me in this trance-like state in which I appear fascinated with the screen in front of me.

2. Blogging causes me to care too much about the numbers. I can’t help clicking over all the time to check my stats, the number of Facebook likes and shares, how many comments I have—all things I really wish I didn’t care about. Maybe I’ll just stop caring right now.

3. Blogging distracts me from book-writing. It’s funny how the whole reason I started a blog is because I wanted to write a book and I thought I’d just see if anyone cared to read my stuff. And now I don’t work on my book at all. I’m too busy blogging. What the heck????? More Here...