Discussion of recent advocacy of the observation of Lent by some evangelicals continues.  I am not a big liturgical calendar person myself, though I think it prudent and even appropriate to preach on the Incarnation on the Sundays around Christmas and the resurrection on the same around Easter.   I am not one of those who seem to hold that those topics are verboten at such times because the Roman Catholics might be doing the same.

Nevertheless, I find the whole quasi-emergent longing for the liturgical calendar in terms of a form of Christian discipling to be a little odd when it occurs among Protestants. Hey, if you want to be a Roman Catholic, then have the courage of your convictions.   And I believe Richard Barcellos has some good things to say over at the website of the Reformed Baptist Fellowship concerning how the issue has recently arisen under the auspices of the Gospel Coalition.