Welcome to the season of Lent. The season begins on Ash Wednesday and moves through Easter. 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.
From our earliest days as a church, our hearts were unified over the desire to “Live and love like Jesus.” It’s still our deepest desire.
Transformation, to be conformed to the image and character of Christ, is at the heart of everything we do as a church. In this season of Lent we’ll follow Matthew’s Gospel as it depicts the character of Jesus, and we’ll be invited to embrace the character of Jesus in our everyday, ordinary lives.
To help us journey through this season together, we’ve prepared this daily devotional. The devotional will follow along with the Lenten sermon series, and it will provide opportunities for you to reflect on the character of Jesus and to embrace His love and His life, deeper still.
In these pages you’ll find pieces that include art, music, testimony, and prayers, as well as devotionals written by our staff and elders. We trust that each of these 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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