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Seeking The Kingdom In All Things

Ash Wednesday

Lent is always a time when I encourage parishioners to slow things down in order to focus more on the basic practices that aid us in living the Christian life. One of the ways I plan to work towards slowing my own life down will be to spend less time blogging. It is something that I very much enjoy, but also an activity that takes quite a bit of time each week, time that I would like to spend on the disciplines of prayer, fasting and almsgiving.

I have yet to finish thoughts on the final chapters of Evangelical Is Not Enough, so I will be writing a few more posts to conclude the series begun a few weeks back as well as other intermittent posts. The plan is not to disappear completely, but simply to spend less time on the internet this Lent. I hope the readers of this blog will join me in whatever way they choose to enter fully into this season of penitence and preparation.

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Fr. Christian is the pastor of St. Thomas the Apostle Church in Lenoir City, TN.

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  • Tory

    The pastor at the church I went to here in Minnesota last night gave the congregation just 3 simple things to focus us during Lent.

    1. Slow down and be QUIET (he used the word “Shoosh”)
    2. Pray simply…no need to make any elaborately crafted prayer.
    3. Change our hearts. (turn away from our old (bad) habits)

    Pretty easy enough to follow.
    He also gave everyone a vial of sand to keep in our pockets. The sand is to remind us of our journey out of the barren desert of sin to be reunited in 40 days with the glory of the Resurrection!

    Pretty cool service.

  • Fr. Christian Mathis

    Sounds like good advice Tory, but not sure about the easy part.

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