Please enjoy these Reflections for Lent this weekend! Friday in the First Week of Lent Matthew 5:20-26?English Standard Version (ESV) 20?For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.?21??You have heard that it was said to those of old, ?You shall not […]
Thursday in the First Week of Lent, Reflections for Lent Series
Matthew 7:7-11?English Standard Version (ESV) Ask, and It Will Be Given 7??Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8?For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. 9?Or which […]
Wednesday in the First Week of Lent, Reflections for Lent Series
Psalm 49:15?The Voice (VOICE) 15?But God will reach into the grave and save my life from its power. ????He will fetch me and take me into His eternal house. What sends us to the grave? Romans 6:23 and other places in scripture tell us death is a natural outcome?we can expect when we only live […]
Tuesday in the First Week of Lent, Reflections for Lent Series
Matthew 6:7-15?New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) 7??When you are praying, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard because of their many words. 8?Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. 9??Pray then in this way: Our […]
Monday in the First Week of Lent, Reflections for Lent Series
Philippians 3:7-11?New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) 7?Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ. 8?More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard […]
First Sunday in Lent, Reflections for Lent Series
Romans 5:12-19?New Living Translation (NLT) Adam and Christ Contrasted 12?When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam?s sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned. 13?Yes, people sinned even before the law was given. But it was not counted as sin because there was not yet any law to break. 14?Still, everyone […]
Saturday after Ash Wednesday, Reflections for Lent Series
Luke 5:27-32?English Standard Version (ESV) Jesus Calls Levi 27?After this he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth. And he said to him, ?Follow me.?28?And leaving everything, he rose and followed him. 29?And Levi made him a great feast in his house, and there was a large company […]
