LENTEN DEVOTIONS...
...entitled ‘Silent Witnesses’ have been made available online and as posts, emails and audio files/podcasts through Lutheran Hour Ministries. To receive the devotions, visit lhm.org/lent/default.asp
Lenten Devotions
This year’s Lenten devotions, Suffering Servant, shows Christ walking with us. Taking on our humanity, the Savior enters a world hostile toward God and blackened by sin. Stepping into our darkness, Jesus was ‘the light of men’. Bearing our punishment, He was lifted up on the cross, and there He died, rising three days later in resurrection victory. Access the free devotions at lhm.org/lent. You can send it to your e-reader, print at home or sign-up for a daily email. Add a Visual Faith element with a Lenten Path 40-day calendar to record daily take-aways. Printed sheets available in the Narthex and Fellowship Hall.
LENT 2024
Divine Services ~ Lenten Services ~ Holy Week Services ~ Easter Service
February 21 – Mid-Week Lenten Service 1, 7:00 PM
February 25 – Second Sunday in Lent - 10:00 AM
February 28 – Mid-Week Lenten Service 2, 7:00 PM
March 3 – Third Sunday in Lent - 10:00 AM
March 6 – Mid-Week Lenten Service 3, 7:00 PM
March 10 – Fourth Sunday in Lent - 10:00 AM
March 13 – Mid-Week Lenten Service 4, 7:00 PM
March 17 – Fifth Sunday in Lent - 10:00 AM
March 20 – Mid-Week Lenten Service 5, 7:00 PM
March 24 – Palm Sunday, Sunday of the Passion –10:00 AM
March 28 – Maundy Thursday, 7:00 PM
March 29 – Good Friday, 7:00 PM
March 31 – Resurrection of Our Lord, 10:00 AM
A Devotion By Rev. Donald Schaefer,
Northern Region Facilitator for Mission Engagement
1 Corinthians 10: 1-13
Third Sunday of Lent, Sunday, March 20, 2022
As students in school
We were used to having tests
Not as punishment but honestly evaluating
How much we had learned
Some of those tests were easy
Others were more difficult
But through the process
We learned more about ourselves
Life is filled with tests too
Especially in being disciples of Jesus
Societal norms or individual’s cynicism
Judging our words or actions
Courage to live more by faith
Than by sight
Comes from being cross eyed
Sure of our identity in God’s love
Living with this mindset
Does not remove the testing
But allows us to stand for something
Instead of falling for anything+
About Lenten Devotions
Did you ever wish that you could have been there at Jesus’ passion? Imagine what it would be like: to hear the crowds shout “Hosanna!” as Jesus rode into Jerusalem, to smell and taste the feast at the Passover, to see Jesus carrying His cross to Golgotha, to touch the nail-wounds in Jesus’ hands when He rose from the dead.
We cannot do that, but the men and women who were eyewitnesses of these events have left their testimony in the pages of the Gospels. John tells us, “These are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name” (John 20:31). But there were silent witnesses, too—objects, animals and places that played a part during key moments of Jesus’ suffering, death and resurrection. We find them in the pages of the Gospels as well. Though they cannot speak, they can show us something of His love and mercy toward us.
Available to read online or as a podcast beginning February 14, 2018, Silent Witnesses, Lenten devotions from Lutheran Hour Ministries, can also be received as an e-mail subscription throughout the Lenten season. The audio version will be available on the daily devotion page beginning February 14, 2018. To print or subscribe to the devotional, visit theLutheran Hour Ministries website.