Some years the message of Ash Wednesday feels more tender than others.
Lent | Ash Wednesday (Year A Year B Year C)
Joel 2:1-2, 12-17 or Isaiah 58:1-12 (Psalm 51:1-17); 2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10; Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21
Mainline Christians have often distorted this passage from Matthew.
The distinctions between how we love God, neighbor, and self are not terribly thick.
What would Jesus say about it?
Every year, we repeat this dusty choreography.
I preached a word of judgment. The stranger in the back row heard grace.