Emphasis Preaching Journal
Self denial
Commentary
I have a missionary friend who has spent most of his adult life in India working as a missionary-educatorpastor. He once told me that he was visiting a church in the states during Lent and had made an impassioned plea for support of the mission work of the whole church. At the end of the meeting the women asked him what they might do to be of help. He suggested that since it was Lent they might practice some self-denial and for that year (this dates the story), do without a new Easter hat and give the money to missions.
