How to Have a Happy and Holy Lent

Holy Trinity Winchester Podcast · Mar 7, 2025 · 15m

With all of your strength…On this past Sunday, I said – to cut a long story short – that loving God with all of our strength requires an effort of the will, a conscious decision to do things that, much of the time, we might not feel like doing. And I also said that Lent gives us a wonderful opportunity to do that.But I also said in that sermon that we have to understand why we should do these things. There has to be a purpose to them otherwise we simply will not be very motivated. This is an observation made by the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 9: ‘Every athlete exercises self-control in all…