Mardi Gras is over, and now our preparation for Easter can Begin.
We prepare ourselves spiritually and mentally and physically. Many of us give up some pleasure or food that brings pleasure, as a way of denying self and using the time to focus on Jesus.
But we do that spiritually as well. Lent is about course correction, our need to turn back to the Ways and Principles of Christ.
This begins with our Ash Wednesday Service, a time of prayer, and devotion and singing, and Holy Communion. proceeded by our dinner is at 5:30 - Chicken and Tuna Salad. The services is 6:30 in the Sanctuary.
Saturday, 8:00am - Men's Breakfast: good food, great fellowship, and a time to Serve our church by doing a few items on our To Do List.
Sunday morning - Lent is a time to renew our Commitment to Worship Our Lord Jesus Christ. Our Sermon Focus turns to Grace. Connecting The Dots of Grace, we sing about it, talk about, but most of us leave most of the God packaged Grace unopened. Come expecting to see that Gift unwrapped! I will be preaching on Grace during Lent.
Sunday, 4:00pm - Church Council Meeting.
Upcoming
Wednesday Night Study will be focusing on World Religions more in detail than I was able to cover during the Sermons. Starting next Wednesday Feb. 20th.
Prayer for the day:
Dear Lord, on this first day of Lent, we come in repentance and sorrow for all our offenses against You and others. As we dare to worship You, we seek Your forgiveness that our sins may be removed and our spirits made clean and whole. Purify
us, and enable us to walk in joy and gladness once again. All of this we ask in
the name of the One who came to deliver us from sin and death. Amen.
Sincerely,
