2025-03-05 – Ash Wednesday – Sermon
✠ Psalmody: Wisdom 11:23a, 24b, 23c;Psalm 57:1a;Psalm 57:1a, 3a;Psalm 103:10;79:8-9;Psalm 30:1–2;Psalm 1:2b, 3b ✠ Lection: Joel 2:12–19; 2 Peter 1:2–11; Matthew 6:16-21 In the Name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. As you sit with ashes upon your head this evening reminded of your mortality, take heart, for the Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness; and He relents from doing harm. Even mortality is good news in Jesus Christ. It is good news in winter, spring, and summer. It is good news in somber Lent when we are bidden by God to takeRead More →