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How to Pray
When we gather together, placing ashes on our foreheads to remember our mortality, we join a very public and common witness.
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Buried Treasure
Our hearts don’t just follow our treasure. They’re linked. Which means the gospel demands we love and share with others.
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Welcome to Lent
Lent, that season before Easter, is known for abstaining and fasting. But it is more than that. It’s a learning lab with a deadline. Lent as a 40-Day Love ChallengeAsh Wednesday | Matthew 6:1-6,16-21 Today is the first day of Lent. Like many Christians, all over the world, I got up and focused on devotion.…
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About the Food
We mistake the purpose of ashes – our symbol of mortality – for only being about death. They are also an invitation to life.
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Ashes and Hearts – On Fire
Most of what we talk about on Ash Wednesday is found in the small part of the Sermon on the Mount we get in the lectionary (Matthew 6:1-6,16-21). The rest of the chapter reveals it means so much more. Ash Wednesday is way more than ashes – it’s the work of forgiveness Ash Wednesday | …