Have you eaten yet today? If not presumably you will at some stage eat today. To go through a whole day without eating is not something we would normally consider, unless we are fasting! We all need to eat and feed ourselves each day to give our body the physical strength it needs to function. [...]
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On Ash Wednesday last year our vicar preached on fasting and feasting in Lent. One year on that sermon is worth pondering again as we begin our period of Lent for 2010.
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Lent is a good time for us to ponder the subject of wanting God and ask ourselves how much do we want Him and hunger after Him. The following scriptures can help us focus our attention on this: Psalm 42: 1-2 – “As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for [...]
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Last night during our Ash Wednesday service our vicar spoke about how Lent was a time for both fasting and feasting. It would come as no surprise to most people that fasting should be associated with Lent as Jesus spent 40 days fasting in the desert. Normally when people think of fasting they associate it [...]
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