Mainline Christians have often distorted this passage from Matthew.
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
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.
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