I want to welcome you to this Lenten season. Today is Ash Wednesday – the beginning of the Church’s observance of the Lenten season. Traditionally, this season is a space for us to stop whatever we are doing, no matter how important it might be, and enter more intentionally into the disciplines of prayer, self-examination and repentance.
This year, I want to invite you to approach this Lenten season with a different posture. Instead of the focus being on self-sacrifice and the emptying of ourselves, I want us to engage this season by receiving what has already been done for us. I want us to fully recover redemption. To rest and receive in His redemptive work that has already been accomplished for us. I want us to revel in His redemptive work and sing and celebrate the Great Song of Redemption.
To help us journey through this season together, we’ve prepared a daily devotional. The devotional will follow along with the Lenten sermon series, “Recovering Redemption.” If you’d like to participate in this daily devotional, simply connect to the Sanctuary app or our website. Devotionals will be updated daily.
Each devotional will include a portion of Scripture, a short reflection on the text, a few questions for reflection, and a prayer offered to bring rest. Devotionals on Saturdays and Sundays will look slightly different and will encourage another way to celebrate our Good God. I trust each of these devotionals will be another way of being transformed by the Gospel to live and love like Jesus.
Honored to celebrate this season with you. “May it begin in me. Right here, Jesus. Right now, Jesus.”
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