This coming Saturday, March 6, is the Austin Parks Foundation's "It's My Park" day. As a church that loves the city of Austin, "It's My Park" day offers us an opportunity to love and serve our city by helping clean up its parks. The park we will be working on this year is Auditorium Shores at ... Read More
Category: Service Projects
Today is Ash Wednesday, which marks the first day of Lent. This is traditionally commemorated by a service where the attendees are marked on the forehead with a cross of ashes. Per custom, the ashes used are from the burning of the palm leaves from the previous year's palms from Palm Sunday. On ... Read More
Category: Lent
Whole volumes of books have been written about prayer, so many that most Christians feel unsure of how to pray. We hear some people pray with thee's and thou's, others with deep, theologically rich and arcane language, others that repeat the same mantra over and over and still others with ... Read More
Category: Lent
This Wednesday marks the beginning of the Lenten Season, which is the third season in the Christian Liturgical Calendar, followed by Advent and Ephiphany. Lent is a period of about 40 days that precedes Easter, commemorating three pillars of celebration. These three pillars are often referred to ... Read More
Category: Lent
Fasting is a funny thing—we all know that we must eat to survive, but almost every major culture and religion has some form of fasting. People have fasted throughout history for religious, political, health, and many other reasons--all of whom chose to abstain from food and placed ... Read More
Category: Lent
Fasting from food to draw near to God is an ancient practice with deep roots in the scriptures. The scriptures make the overwhelming point that the fast is to be from food. Why? Dependence As created beings we depend on God for our life and our sustenance. Food is our primary ... Read More
Category: Lent
I would like to walk-through with you, a fairly accessible guide for fasting. Like any good citizen of the Google-age, I set about trying to find as many online resources as possible about how to fast. The first thing I learned was this: there is a lot of garbage on the internet. ... Read More
Category: Lent