Weekly Update
GCN Family,
Today begins the season of Lent: The journey to the cross of Good Friday and the empty tomb of Resurrection Sunday.
I hope you’ll join us tonight at 7pm for our Ash Wednesday Service. It’ll be a time of prayer, worship, scripture, and a reminder that life is fleeting, but Jesus is forever. I’m really looking forward to tonight.
A central Lenten passage is Jesus’ temptations in the wilderness. (Matthew 4:1-11 and Luke 4:1-13) Jesus went 40 days with no food, and the first temptation by the enemy was to turn stones into bread. Imagine how hungry Jesus must have been. We know that Jesus will turn water to wine. He’ll take a little boys lunch and feed 5,000 people. He will heal a man born blind. We know that Jesus can turn stones to bread. But He doesn’t do it.
Why?
Because the way of Jesus is not the way of instant gratification and quick fixes. It is the way of complete dependence upon the Father.
As we begin this season, here is a good self-examining prayer: Lord, in what ways do I need to more deeply depend on You? Where in my life do I need to invite the Holy Spirit to come in and heal? Amen.
See you tonight. 7pm.
One more thing: It’s not too late to be a part of Relational Evangelism Training Day! This Saturday. 1-4pm. Click Here to register. It’s 100% free and 1,000% needed. If you’re on the fence, take this as your sign: Go ahead and sign up. This is all a part of what it means for us to be a church who is all-in on embodying the good news of Jesus to our neighborhood.
Much Love,
Pastor Brian
Today begins the season of Lent: The journey to the cross of Good Friday and the empty tomb of Resurrection Sunday.
I hope you’ll join us tonight at 7pm for our Ash Wednesday Service. It’ll be a time of prayer, worship, scripture, and a reminder that life is fleeting, but Jesus is forever. I’m really looking forward to tonight.
A central Lenten passage is Jesus’ temptations in the wilderness. (Matthew 4:1-11 and Luke 4:1-13) Jesus went 40 days with no food, and the first temptation by the enemy was to turn stones into bread. Imagine how hungry Jesus must have been. We know that Jesus will turn water to wine. He’ll take a little boys lunch and feed 5,000 people. He will heal a man born blind. We know that Jesus can turn stones to bread. But He doesn’t do it.
Why?
Because the way of Jesus is not the way of instant gratification and quick fixes. It is the way of complete dependence upon the Father.
As we begin this season, here is a good self-examining prayer: Lord, in what ways do I need to more deeply depend on You? Where in my life do I need to invite the Holy Spirit to come in and heal? Amen.
See you tonight. 7pm.
One more thing: It’s not too late to be a part of Relational Evangelism Training Day! This Saturday. 1-4pm. Click Here to register. It’s 100% free and 1,000% needed. If you’re on the fence, take this as your sign: Go ahead and sign up. This is all a part of what it means for us to be a church who is all-in on embodying the good news of Jesus to our neighborhood.
Much Love,
Pastor Brian
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