Posts with the category “lent”

Palm Sunday confronts us with a question that feels just as urgent now as it did when Jesus first entered Jerusalem: What kind of king are we actually looking for? It is easy to answer that question too quickly. We know the church words. We know the right names. We know the right songs. We know to say that Jesus is Lord, that Christ is King, that our hope is in Him. But Palm Sunday presses deeper than our vocabulary. It asks what kind of power we trust, what kind of leadership we admire, and what kind of kingdom we really want.  Read More

The deepest peace in the Christian life does not come from finally getting everything under control. It comes from discovering that we were never meant to carry that role in the first place. We are not the ones who hold the world together. We are not the ones who secure every ending. We are not the ones who command life, timing, or ultimate outcomes.   Read More

Scripture Reading: Matthew 4:1-11, Romans 5:12-19, Genesis 2:15-17, 3:1-7, Psalm 32:1-11 Lent is the forty–day journey that leads us toward Easter. It begins on Ash Wednesday and stretches to Holy Saturday, the quiet day before Resurrection Sunday. Those forty days are not random; they mirror the forty days Jesus spent in the wilderness fasting, praying, and facing temptation before beginning His ...  Read More