Pr. Cheryl Walenta Gorvie Sermon - blog

Ash Wednesday is not just about you.  Don’t get me wrong—Ash Wednesday does involve you, as the sooty ashes are maybe tickling your forehead right now.  But we don’t get together to observe Ash Wednesday solely for the purpose of purifying our own individual selves through acts of penitence, like smearing our foreheads with ashes.    We’re not here to flog ourselves out of guilt for our sin, mercilessly punishing the flesh that has been created in the image of God.  We’re de

Perhaps you have noticed the questions—during Lent, every week when we gather for worship on Sundays and on Wednesdays, there will be a...

Ash Wednesday, in the year of our Lord 2021—who needs ashes right now after a year like we have had? Maybe it’s just as well that a polar...