Let Sleeping Dogmas Awake!
Cycle A First Lesson Sermons for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany
There are many doctrines in the Bible that receive light billing today. Though the Bible is not silent on the matter, the pulpit is strangely mute. Which of you has heard a sermon on sleep? Indeed, we spend one-third of our lives in slumber; yet even though the Bible speaks of our nocturnal habits, few ministers preach on the matter. The same goes for other dogmas such as hell, meditation, tongues, and, of course, that which the text mentions, fasting!
Today, let us seek to remedy at least one portion of this abysmal situation and open the book on fasting.