For Lent this year, my wife and I are giving an equal amount of money to World Relief any time we spend money on a non-essential item for ourselves or our kids. Will you join us?
#2 (or #64) Lent, Masturbation, and Folgers
Episode 2 / 64 covers why Lent is awesome, using Lent to help the most vulnerable this year (and if you’d like to get involved). The mailbag brings a question about masturbation, and Noah’s Rant targets the Folgers Cafe at the local Marathon gas station.
Lent for Protestants
As I was growing up in my public school and my Baptist church in suburban Ohio, “Lent” was always a curious time of year for me. Never talked about at my church, I always wondered why on Fridays many of my friends had to eat fish and weren’t allowed to have meat. I wondered even […]
Why Lent?
When I was growing up, the only people I knew who observed Lent were my Catholic friends, who honestly, didn’t know or care much about Jesus in their daily lives from what I could observe. I remember they had to eat fish for lunch on Fridays in the school cafeteria. I once asked a friend […]
LENT!!!! Drinking Decaf for Jesus??? Say it ain’t so…
I originally posted this article a couple years ago and unlike most things I wrote from years ago, this is actually still pretty funny and on-point. As Lent nears, and as I prepare to give a sermon on Lent this Sunday, my coffee consumption is at an all-time high! (Seriously, my heart was pounding in […]