Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of the Lent season. Does anyone here celebrate Lent? Does anyone give something up or ash their forehead? Is Lent a valid season for the Reformed? I have heard arguments against it and for it within the Reformed community. Anyone burying their Hallelujah? I remember one year I gave up meat for Lent. Enthralled by Mickey Mouse at Disneyland, I ate some sausage. Oops.

What thinks ye of this:
“The history given in the Bible should, however, inform how we speak into the already-existing cultures. The Church and her worship must be established, however secretly, first and foremost. That means a full Church life. No monks separating off to themselves away from the community. Vigorous psalm singing with instruments. Festivity and joy, not “forty days of fasting in Lent” and fasting every Friday. Weekly communion with real bread and a real glass of real wine. The teaching of the whole Bible, not just the so-called “New Testament.”–”The Case Against Western Civilization: Part 5: Laying New Foundations in a Dying World”–by James B. Jordan