The Season of Lent

Lent is the season of the church year that immediately precedes Easter. (You can learn more about the seasons of the church year here). Lent can easily be overlooked but is an important part of the church year. As we remember God’s work of forgiveness accomplished with Jesus’ suffering and death, we take a moment to consider our sin and the need we all have for a Savior. So, Lent is a season of the church year when we focus on repentance and prayer.  To repent means to be sorry for our sins, to ask God to forgive us and to trust that he does, and then to try not to repeat those sins.

Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, named from the ancient custom of placing ashes on the foreheads of worshipers as a sign of sorrow of sin. The ashes are also a reminder that because we are sinful and live in a sinful world, our physical bodies will die, decay, and turn back into dust.

During Lent, we study Jesus’ life and all that he did in order to save us. We see him overcoming the temptations of the devil, living a perfect life in our place, suffering and dying on the cross as the final payment for all the sin of the entire world.  On Easter morning Jesus rose from the dead. This means that when we die, we won’t stay dead, we will rise and live forever with him in heaven!  That is such good news!

Weekly Lent Meditations

This year, during the season of Lent, we will be releasing a video meditation to help you reflect on the sacrifice Jesus made to pay for our sins and to help you prepare for Easter. The videos will include devotion as well as a review of the passion history combining the perspectives from all four of the Gospels so that we see the whole story of what happened between the Passover in the Upper Room and Jesus’ death on the cross.