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A Word to Ash Wednesday

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Category: Ash Wednesday & Lent

A Word to Ash Wednesday
A Word to Ash Wednesday
2 Mar 2022

Joel 2:12-13 — Yet even now, says the LORD, return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with  weeping, and with mourning; rend your…READ MORE

A Word to Ash Wednesday
A Word to Ash Wednesday
25 Feb 2020

We had the carpet in some of the synod offices replaced this month, replacing carpet that had been down for at least 28 years.  My…READ MORE

A Word to Ash Wednesday 2017
A Word to Ash Wednesday 2017
1 Mar 2017

The Scripture readings for Ash Wednesday seem to give us conflicting admonitions: on the one hand (if you are using the passage from Joel), the…READ MORE

A Word to Lent 2016
A Word to Lent 2016
10 Feb 2016

We enter Lent confessing to God in the words of Psalm 51: “I know my transgressions and my sin is ever before me.  Against you,…READ MORE

A Word to Ash Wednesday
A Word to Ash Wednesday
8 Feb 2015

I was driving to an evening worship service this past Saturday when I heard the news that an early mentor of mine had died the…READ MORE

A Word to Ash Wednesday
A Word to Ash Wednesday
28 Feb 2014

Christian psychologist and author Paul Tournier observed that people who come to him for counseling typically display a internal tension. On the one hand, they…READ MORE

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