Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared February 27, 2012. We are re-posting it, for this Ash Wednesday. Last week marked the beginning of Lent. Many Christians—including a growing number of generally non-liturgical evangelicals—observe the forty-day period preceding Easter as a somber time to fast, repent, and prepare to remember Christ’s death and, ultimately, […]Continue Reading →
If and only if we engage in this true fasting, not just depriving ourselves of food or adorning our foreheads with ashes, but “spending ourselves” on behalf of the poor, the immigrant, the fatherless, and the widow, then Scripture promises that, “You will call, and the LORD will answer; you will cry for help, and He will say: Here I am.”Continue Reading →
