The following was used at our Ash Wednesday service. I found it particularly helpful to transition my focus from Jesus’ ministry that we covered throughout the season of Epiphany to the Cross which will be our focus throughout the season of Lent. M: Let us live this Lenten season with the cross before us. C: [...]
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By His Wounds
Posted: February 23, 2010 in Lent, Song CommentaryTags: By His Wounds, Lent, Mac Powell, Third Day
One of the songs that we will be singing in the upcoming season of Lent is “By His Wounds” by Mac Powell of the band Third Day. I classify this song a scripture song because it basically takes a passage of scripture and puts it to music without any additional fluff. By His Wounds is [...]
I’m just reissuing this post to display the piece of artwork that we used for our Ash Wednesday ceremony. For Ash Wednesday, we had our worshippers form a single file line, during an evening worship service, approach a poster with a cross drawn on it, and made a smudge of a cross, out of [...]
Ash Wed – Responsive Reading
Posted: January 23, 2009 in Ash Wednesday, LentTags: Ash Wed, Lent, Multi-Part Reading
Ash Wed – Responsive Reading Pastor: Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent. The date is set by counting back forty days from Easter (excluding Sundays), which takes us to the Wednesday seven weeks before Easter. Why forty days? Each day symbolizes one of the forty days when Jesus fasted in the wilderness, [...]
