LENTEN MIDWEEK SERVICES BEGIN FEBRUARY 6th!

Posted by Pastor Dancy on January 28, 2008

Come and prepare your heart for the remembrance of our Lord’s Passion by worshiping at Praise each Wednesday beginning Feb 6th at 7 pm.

The season of Lent, a long-standing tradition in the Christian church, is a time of repentance and prayer as we prepare to celebrate our Lord’s suffering, death and resurrection for our salvation.

The Passion of Jesus is truly the heart and center of Christianity, and Lent affords us the opportunity to recall the important events of the last two weeks of the earthly life of Jesus.

One third of the gospels focus on these two weeks, the most important days in human history! Some of the most beautiful and touching Christian music, both traditional and contemporary, was written for Lent, and we’ll use the best of each genre this year.

Some Christians choose to ‘fast’ during Lent, a voluntary ‘giving up’ of some luxury as a personal, quiet reminder to them of Christ, who gave up His life to save us. At the very least, we can give up an hour of our time to come and worship our Savior and deepen our faith.

We will once again offer the optional imputation of ashes on Ash Wednesday, as a sign of our mortality, “dust you were, and to dust you shall return.” We will celebrate the Lord’s Supper on Ash Wednesday as well, the assurance that we are truly forgiven in Christ, and our dust and ashes shall rise on the Last Day as we live with our Lord in unspeakable joy for all eternity.

This Lent, we will ‘virtually’ step back in time to listen to half a dozen different biblical characters from the last few days before Jesus’ crucifixion. We will have an opportunity to understand more fully how their thinking and actions are so often like our own. (You may even recognize a couple local “characters” from Praise in these mini-dramas.)

Our Lent services will be “family friendly” this year, too. We’ll include a children’s message, and not keep the kids up too late.

At 6 pm, previous to the services, be sure to enjoy the Soup-Salad-Sandwich-Sweets-Something-Supper served by some talented cooks of Praise in the Fellowship Hall for a mere ‘free will offering!’

Why not bring a friend or neighbor with you this year, or invite your extended family or co-workers? What an easy way to introduce your unchurched friends to Christ, and to Praise!

Hmmmm…Who could you bring….?