February 17, 2024,

Dear Road Church Friends,

Christians who choose to participate in Lenten activities traditionally devote themselves to some form of spiritual self-improvement. Lent is modeled on the 40 days Jesus spent in the Judean wilderness fasting and praying. For Jesus it was a serious vision quest seeking to learn the will of God for his life. Fasting was an important part of the experience of getting closer to God. It is a spiritual discipline with a long history based on the premise that since eating and drinking our fill day after day tends to dull our senses; abstaining from food for an extended period, tends to clarify our thinking and heighten our spiritual powers of perception.

We usually associate Lent with saying No to temptation, but it’s also about saying Yes to God.

SERMON: “The Power of Yes”

SCRIPTURE:  2 Corinthians 1:18-20

As surely as God is faithful, our word to you does not waver between “Yes” and “No.” For Jesus Christ, the Son of God, does not waver between “Yes” and “No.” And as God’s ultimate “Yes,” he always does what he says. For all of God’s promises have been fulfilled in Christ with a resounding “Yes!” And through Christ, our “Yes!” ascends to God for his glory.

FOLLOW ME

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

And him evermore I beheld

Walking in Galilee,

By the shores of the Beautiful Sea.

He toucheth the sightless eyes,

Before him the demons flee,

To the dead he sayeth, “Arise!”

To the living, “Follow me!”

And that voice shall still sound on

From the centuries that are gone

To the centuries that shall be.

Blessings to you all,

Pastor Norm

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