Ash Wednesday (18)
  1. We can’t remove our crosses or the reality of our deaths. Only Jesus can.
  2. People everywhere, every day, feel God’s wrath—and not as merely an afterlife threat but as a present reality.
  3. The cross traced in ashes isn’t a badge of honor or a mark of our works. It’s a reminder of Christ’s work.
  4. What if the dissonance in this calendrical coincidence can be harmonized into a deeper melody?
  5. As disciples of Jesus, our righteousness cannot be performed before others, because our righteousness was already performed by Jesus.
  6. Ash Wednesday's purpose is not to motivate our resolve to redouble our efforts to do better.
  7. Ash Wednesday, is meant to remind us we have a death problem. All living things made from the soil shall return to it.
  8. Can we fully experience the joy of the Festival of the Resurrection if we do not seriously stare boldly into the sad state of our own faithlessness to Him who promises to be faithful even when we are not?
  9. The original sin of Genesis 3 was not gutter-style-sin, but glory-style-sin. It was more of an upward grasp than a downward fall. - Nathan Hoff
  10. Ash Wednesday confronts us with our true nature, our mortality, and marks us with the only escape from it: the cross of Christ.
  11. John Pless offers thoughts on preaching for your midweek Lent sermons.
  12. All this disciplined living is to be done in freedom.
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