Lent Archives

Here are 70 of our favorite and most popular ideas for what to give up for Lent.

If you want to be known for more than just your dress, what’s filling up your baskets, or what food you are eating on Easter Sunday, then I highly...

The season of Lent is an opportunity for us to reflect on who we are and who God is. The 40 days before Easter is a time to reorder our lives. The...

When Valentine's Day and Ash Wednesday fell on the same day I thought, "This suddenly makes a whole lot of sense to me; can we do this every year?"

The core of the Easter message is the new life available to every person because of the redemption Jesus provided through his death and...

Deciding what to abstain from is one of the choices you must make when preparing to fast. The other is about the type of fast you will undertake....

My family doesn’t observe Lent. I’ve never been a member of a church that observes Lent. I wouldn’t tell you to practice it. But I’m not going to...

Lent is not a season for weight loss. Yes, Lent involves a taming of the physical appetites. But the goal is to cultivate a spiritual hunger for...

In my weakness, this failure to keep a fast reminded me where I fall short in other areas of life.

For Christians, Lent is a 40-day season of fasting, reflection and penance culminating in Holy Week and the Easter Sunday commemoration of Jesus’...

As followers of Jesus, we’ve been given a simple mission regarding sin: search and destroy. Put it to death.

What exactly is Ash Wednesday about? And why would it affect how we live everyday, not just one day a year?

Tomorrow marks the beginning of Lent, a 40 day span of time in which Christians everywhere abstain from something to grow closer to God.

I have to confess: Lent is my least favorite liturgical season. Can't it just be Christmas year round?

What does a dirty forehead have to do with being a Christian and why is this ritual gaining in popularity?