Welcome to the series on Lent. Today is Ash Wednesday and the start of the 40 days of Lent culminating with Easter Sunday. Come walk with us as we look at how we can prepare ourselves for this holy time. We will start with what some of us remember of childhood Easter time - giving something up. What does that mean for us today?

Join as I enter Holy Week and look at a Discerning Life and a preference for God. How do we do that and what does a “preference for God” mean?  Listen as I share what I have learned from the book titled “A Discerning Life” and begin to notice where God might be encouraging you look, notice, and connect with God.

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Many songs have been written about the cross of Christ.  How can we sit with a song and take a moment to accept the emotions of the words? How can life, death, and resurrection  mingle together? Reflecting on the death of her father, Flannery O’Connor wrote in her journal, “The reality of death has come upon us and a consciousness of the power of God has broken our complacency like a bullet in the side.  The cross brings up many visual images for us. I wonder what you see when you visualize the cross.

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This is the third and last talk on Confession in the greater series of Spiritual Disciplines. The discussion is focused on the reasons it is considered a “Corporate” discipline, one done in community. How comfortable are you with a public confession? When you are with a group that participates in a read confession, I think it suddenly levels the playing field. Yes, we are all sinners, yet God calls us Saints and His own children, what a powerful thing.

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Today is our 2nd chat on Confession. Building on the first chat, I will look at why your view of God affects your belief in forgiveness and your desire to confess. Then, I will lead us into a general confession of sin.

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This week I will begin a new Spiritual Discipline, one that is the least talked about, and if we do it is in secret. I certainly didn’t think of it as a “discipline” something to practice as a young Christian. Come along as we learn together how much freedom and joy can be found in confession.

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This is the last chat on Worship.  A quote from C.S. .Lewis sums up the concept shared in this chat, “All enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise….We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; …the delight is incomplete till it is expressed.” Let’s apply this to praise and worship.

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This is week two in the Spiritual Exercise of Worship. Worship is a corporate Spiritual Discipline in that we are called to worship together. To Join our souls with the Spirit of God and together with one voice recognize our universal need for the Almighty. One aspect of this need is understanding it is a personal shift from doing something to ‘being’ and longing to rest under the shelter of His wings.

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As we look into 2022 what does the Creator, Designer, Master want for your life? What voices are you listening to? I I don’t think He is asking us to make a list of New Year Resolutions, like many do. Like : get fit, loss weight, spend less, get out of debt, find love, - the list goes on. However, I wonder if God might be asking you something else? Have you asked Him lately?

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The season of Christmas and the celebration of the birth of the Christ Child is not over. Today we celebrate Epiphany. Historically this is the day the Magi visited Jesus. The fullness of this day is for us as followers of Jesus to embrace Jesus as the gift from the Father to all of us. We recognize Jesus as the Son of God, fully man and fully God. Come listen and be encouraged.

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