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When No Means Yes: The Ancient Case for Lent (#439)

Episode 444 Mar 5, 2026 1020

Greg unpacks the often-misunderstood practice of asceticism—the spiritual training of saying "no" to ourselves so we can say a bigger "yes" to God. Far from misery or earning salvation, Lent's self-denial (fasting, giving things up) is biblical discipline, modeled by Jesus in the desert and echoed t...

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