Word for the Week

Week beginning: 6th March, 2016

By Dominic Hughes | London

"Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights…"
"And he stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights."
"At the end of forty days they returned from exploring the land…"
"and he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan…"

Genesis 7:4a, Exodus 24:18b, Numbers 13:25, Mark 1:13a (all NIV)

Lent for Lawyers

Many LCF members will be currently observing the season of Lent.

It is, of course, no accident that Lent lasts for about 40 days. Periods of 40 days (or 40 years) regularly occur in different contexts in the Bible, and there is often