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Lent begins on March 9th as we celebrate the beginning of Lent with our Ash Wednesday worship opportunities.A 10 AM Ash Wednesday worship service will be held in the Historic Chapel with the imposition of ashes and Holy Communion. A 6:45 PM worship service in the sanctuary that evening will also provide for the imposition of ashes and the celebration of Holy Communion by intinction. With this day the people of God begin their 40 day journey through Lent to Easter. During these forty days we will gather each Wednesday night at 6:45 PM for our mid-week Lenten Worship services. Sanctuary Choir rehearsal will follow at approximately 7:30 PM. Our theme for this year’s Lenten services will be Miracles of Lent. When we speak or preach from the “Passion of Christ,” we are speaking or preaching about Christ’s suffering and death on Calvary’s cross for the sins of the world. Certainly, the Passion is about Jesus assuming unto Himself the sins of the world and then experiencing to the fullest degree the Father’s just wrath upon that sin. It is about forgiveness and salvation graciously offered in view of the shelf blood of Calvary. This series is about all of that and more. It is also about the important and significant miracles and miraculous signs that God the Father performed to set apart His Son’s death from absolutely all others. The miracles and miraculous signs performed by the heavenly Father during the Passion of His Son were performed to help spread the Good News, which is centered in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ in the face of opposition. St. Paul, in Ephesians 6:10-20 reminds us of the opposition with which we are faced. Proclaiming the Miracles of Lent equips us with some of the “armor” of which St. Paul wrote. The Miracles of Lent will focus on these themes:March 9th Ash Wednesday – The Miraculous Darkness Plan now to worship during Lent on Sunday mornings and at the mid-week Lenten Services. Our Journey in Faith includes our Journey through Lent. May we join in that journey. |