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Building A New You

Building A New You

The good news of Ash Wednesday and Lent is that we can, with God’s help, rebuild and become more and more the person God wants us to be. We have disappointed and hurt God, other people, God’s natural world and ourselves. However, through the cross, Jesus says to each one of us, “I love you. I forgive you. Now go and be the person I created you to be.”

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Lent: Fasting and Feasting

Lent: Fasting and Feasting

How would you explain Ash Wednesday to another person?

The following is my attempt:

On Ash Wednesday, the first day of the season of Lent, the pastor applies ashes in the shape of the cross on the forehead of each participant while speaking the words, “For dust you are and to dust you shall return." Genesis 3:19