Announcing Lent Devotionals for 2024, “Seeing His Love with New Eyes” which will dig deep into a personal relationship of love with our Savior Jesus Christ.  To know His love that frees us from shame.  To experience His grace that flows from His love.  Lent begins on February 14th and continues to Holy Saturday, March 30th.  I hope you’ll join me for this soul-refreshing series.

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• Lent 2013 looked at The Letter to the Romans: Paul’s Masterpiece to reclaim foundations of our Christian heritage and began February 13, 2013.
•  A very special and ever popular offering was Lent 2014’s Be Still and Know that I AM God  which can be obtained through the archives beginning in March 2014. 
• Lent 2015 began on February 18, 2015 with a series entitled With Christ in the Upper Room: Final Preparations.  We explored what is often called “The Upper Room Discourse” found in John chapters 13-17. 
• ReKindle, the Lent 2016 series, began on February 10, 2016 and encouraged us to rekindle our spiritual lives.
• Light: There’s Nothing Like It was the 2017 Lent series and explored this metaphor often used to portray Christ.  It is archived beginning March 1, 2017.
• Lent 2018, we explored the questions of Pi and Chi (the Greek letter beginning the word Christos, which means Christ, Messiah, the Anointed One). We asked and answered the questions “Why?” from the movie Life of Pi as we discovered the uniqueness of Jesus Christ in a world of many faiths.
• Lent 2019 gave us a deeper window into Easter “More to the Easter Story” since we miss so much when we rely only on a superficial understanding of the work of Christ. These devotionals are archived beginning March 6, 2019.
• Our Lent 2020 devotional series offered prayer points surrounding “Be Thou My Vision” and were aimed at helping us to see God for who He is. The full set of devotionals are archived beginning February 26, 2020.
• The theme for 2021 Lent Devotionals was how to live between two worlds while waiting for Christ’s return. Into the gap between the City of Man and its fixation upon sin and the City of God with its demand for holiness, two words minister peace: But God. Praise God for His intervention! They are archived beginning February 17, 2021.
• Revelation in 40 was the series for Lent in 2022 and offered 40 vignettes, scenes, concepts, and thoughts to inspire us to read the Book of Revelation as it is written and to go deeper. They are archived beginning March 2, 2022.
• Last year’s devotionals, “Created to Display His Image” delved into the mystery and importance of the Image of God in which every human being has been made. They are archived beginning on February 22, 2023.

Just Trust.

One of the disadvantages of living in an information age is attempting to discern the truth in a forest of ideas, facts, and popular sentiment. The Bible will never steer you wrong.

In His prayer from John 17:17-18, Jesus reminded His disciples then and His disciples today, “Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth. As You sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world.”

In this world, we will have confusion around us, but as long as we seek the path of His truth as a priority, we’ll grow in wisdom, see His truth, and this life will be less confusing.

“In you, LORD my God, I put my trust. I trust in You; do not let me be put to shame, nor let my enemies triumph over me. No one who hopes in You will ever be put to shame, but shame will come on those who are treacherous without cause. Show me Your ways, LORD, teach me Your paths. Guide me in Your truth and teach me, for You are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.” (Psalm 25:1-5)

What’s the first priority you seek every morning?

For those of us with the world at our fingertips through smart phones we use as alarm clocks, it’s way too easy to have a first priority be something other than God. Maybe a priority for the New Year could be to seek the Lord, call on Him, turn to the Lord, and ask for His mercy upon your day, your household, your family, your friends, your nation, your world, and your life. He is still near. He still faithful.