Today, we are concluding our Lenten sermon series on Feasting and Fasting for Lent. It has been good for us to examine the Word of God each week to see how we can rid ourselves of those values, attitudes, and lifestyles that are an insult to the Holiness of God and by the power of the Holy Spirit to replace them with values, attitudes, and lifestyles that honor God and build us up to maximize our potential as disciples of Jesus Christ. We have been fasting to deny ourselves things that render invalid our witness and fill ourselves to the brim with God''s will so we might reflect something greater and purer in our lives.

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale shares the story of how certain Indian youths would go away in solitude to prepare themselves for becoming an adult. One such youth hiked into a b…