My Vision of Morality-Lent 26, 2020

Prayer Focus: No one but God defines morality.

Holy Father, forgive us. It’s not hard to see how we got into the moral mess we’re in. We decided to be our own arbiters of morality instead of looking to the standards You have given us in Your Word. You alone are righteous. You alone are just. You alone can truly distinguish good from evil and are able to declare for us what is right and what is wrong. Forgive us for turning Your standards upside down, looking to a Supreme Court or to a President or to a United Nations or to a pastor or to a psychiatrist to tell us what we ought to do when our conscience is begging us to listen to You. Yes, You are able to give enhanced discernment to Your people wherever they are–whether leadership or right next door. But forgive us for the many times each day when we tell our consciences to go away for a while. Forgive us for thinking we’re owed special treatment by anyone simply for having done what we ought to do out of regard for Your Holy Spirit’s promptings. Teach me of the beauty of black and white living, the awesomeness of absolutes when they come from You, and that many shades of gray aren’t the way Jesus lived and neither should we. Forgive Your Church for our many compromises and capitulations to our culture. We come to You, humbly asking for Your mercy. We are sinners and You alone are God. With tremendous gratitude for all Jesus has done that we never once deserved. Amen.

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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.