Lent is the six-week period leading up to Easter. Originally a preparation period for those desiring to be baptized, it eventually became embedded into Christian tradition as a season for the Church to symbolically follow Christ into the wilderness. It's a time for fasting, self-denial and emptying ourselves of lesser things so we might be filled with the greater things of the Gospel. We'll narrow our focus to the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, turn from our sin and trust in His atoning work.