Welcome Friends and Guests: On Ash Wednesday we begin our 40-day journey toward Easter with a day of fasting and repentance. Marking our foreheads with dust, we acknowledge that we die and return to the earth. At the same time, the dust traces the life-giving cross indelibly marked on our foreheads at baptism. While we journey through Lent to return to God, we have already been reconciled to God through Christ. We humbly pray for God to make our hearts clean while we rejoice that “now is the day of salvation.” Returning to our baptismal call, we more intentionally bear the fruits of mercy and justice in the world.
Ash Wednesday: Lent is a time of renewal. We focus on the death and resurrection of Jesus — and in turn focus on our own death and resurrection found in baptism. We who have been baptized into Christ have died to sin and are righteous saints of God. Yet, we know that we struggle daily with sin as we seek to follow Jesus. This is the wonderful Lutheran understanding of sinner and saint. Come back and worship with us each Sunday at 10 a.m.
(The Ash Wednesday Bulletin can be downloaded using the link above.)
