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Lent is a season of contrasts. It begins with the godly sorrow of repentance on Ash Wednesday and ends with the exultant joy of Easter. During midweek Lenten services, churches often read the “passion history” and meditate on Jesus’ suffering and death. Yet the Sundays of Lent are intended to be “little Easters” that give us hope through the Lenten journey. Lent was also, historically, a time when new Christians would study the teachings of the Bible as they prepared for baptism or for becoming confirmed members of the church at Easter time.
Scripture is brimming with imagery and descriptions of our Savior Jesus as the warrior who fights and defeats sin, death, and Satan. Each service focuses on an aspect of our Savior-warrior as he is promised to us, fights our enemies for us, and triumphs over them for us. The title is drawn from the hymn “The Son of God Goes Forth to War.” This Lent season, we will also be learning about our Christian faith by focusing on the Epistle lessons appointed for the season of Lent as we prepare for Easter. Each of the Epistle lessons illuminates a sharp contrast (sometimes multiple contrasts). We will highlight these contrasts of Lent through preaching, teaching, and black and white art for print and screen.See how God reveals the stark contrast between sinful humans and the redeeming God-man,between doing it yourself and trusting in God, between being darkness or being light in the Lord. Get a glimpse of the “old self” and “new self” to see and appreciate the transformation that God has accomplished through Christ. The contrasts are as opposite as death and life.The only one who could accomplish these transformations is the one who humbled himself so that we could be changed, exalted.
March 1 - Lent 1
Romans 5:12-19:
Contrast of Adam and Christ
March 8 - Lent 2
Romans 4:1-5, 13-17:
Contrast of Works and Faith
March 15 - Lent 3
Ephesians 5:8-14:
Contrast of Darkness and Light
March 22 - Lent 4
Romans 8:1-10: Contrast of Old Self and New Self
March 29 - Lent 5
Romans 8:11-19:
Contrast of Death and Life
April 5 - Lent 6
Philippians 2:5-11:
Contrast of Exaltation and Humiliation