Daily Prayers of Confession – Lent (Day 5)
“Lent is a season of preparation and repentance during which we anticipate the death (Good Friday) and resurrection (Easter Sunday) of Jesus. It is this very preparation and repentance – aimed at grasping the intense significance of the crucifixion – that gives us a deep and powerful longing for the resurrection, the joy of Easter.” - Will Walker As we walk through this season of Lent together as a church family, I will be posting a simple daily prayer of confession for you to use as a prompt for your own prayers of confession. The spiritual practice of daily confession
Welcome to Lent
Welcome to Lent! A prayerful 40 day season (not counting Sundays) that readies our heart for the celebration of the cross and the resurrection at Easter. If you are new to the celebration of this season, here is a helpful article that expresses what we are after by our observation of this season here at NW. https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/why-bother-with-lent/
Daily Prayers of Confession – Lent
“Lent is a season of preparation and repentance during which we anticipate the death (Good Friday) and resurrection (Easter Sunday) of Jesus. It is this very preparation and repentance – aimed at grasping the intense significance of the crucifixion – that gives us a deep and powerful longing for the resurrection, the joy of Easter.” - Will Walker As we walk through this season of Lent together as a church family, I will be posting a simple daily prayer of confession for you to use as a prompt for your own prayers of confession. The spiritual practice of daily confession
Daily Prayers of Confession – Lent (Day 4)
“Lent is a season of preparation and repentance during which we anticipate the death (Good Friday) and resurrection (Easter Sunday) of Jesus. It is this very preparation and repentance – aimed at grasping the intense significance of the crucifixion – that gives us a deep and powerful longing for the resurrection, the joy of Easter.” - Will Walker As we walk through this season of Lent together as a church family, I will be posting a simple daily prayer of confession for you to use as a prompt for your own prayers of confession. The spiritual practice of daily confession
Daily Prayers of Confession – Lent (Day 3)
“Lent is a season of preparation and repentance during which we anticipate the death (Good Friday) and resurrection (Easter Sunday) of Jesus. It is this very preparation and repentance – aimed at grasping the intense significance of the crucifixion – that gives us a deep and powerful longing for the resurrection, the joy of Easter.” - Will Walker As we walk through this season of Lent together as a church family, I will be posting a simple daily prayer of confession for you to use as a prompt for your own prayers of confession. The spiritual practice of daily confession
Daily Prayers of Confession – Day 2 (Lent)
“Lent is a season of preparation and repentance during which we anticipate the death (Good Friday) and resurrection (Easter Sunday) of Jesus. It is this very preparation and repentance – aimed at grasping the intense significance of the crucifixion – that gives us a deep and powerful longing for the resurrection, the joy of Easter.” - Will Walker As we walk through this season of Lent together as a church family, I will be posting a simple daily prayer of confession for you to use as a prompt for your own prayers of confession. The spiritual practice of daily confession
Meditation for Preparation – Feb. 18th
Photo by Alfred Aloushy on Unsplash Read Our Passage for this Week: LUKE 5:1-16 On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, and he saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon's, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people from the boat. And when he had finished speaking, he said
Daily Prayers of Confession – Day 1 (Lent)
“Lent is a season of preparation and repentance during which we anticipate the death (Good Friday) and resurrection (Easter Sunday) of Jesus. It is this very preparation and repentance – aimed at grasping the intense significance of the crucifixion – that gives us a deep and powerful longing for the resurrection, the joy of Easter.” - Will Walker As we walk through this season of Lent together as a church family, I will be posting a simple daily prayer of confession for you to use as a prompt for your own prayers of confession. The spiritual practice of daily confession
Luke Resources
As we study the gospel of Luke this year, here are some resources to help you as you study along! Background/Overview: Bible Project Video: another creative overview of the book of Luke (plus other helpful resources!) by the folks at the Bible Project! The Gospel of Luke in 7 Minutes: a high energy creative overview of Luke in - you guessed it - 7 minutes! The Gospel of Luke video by the Lumo Project: the Lumo Project has created a video reading of all 4 gospels. They use middle eastern actors in a middle eastern setting with the narrator only using the words
How Great is Our Savior
Photo by ün LIU on Unsplash Read: Luke 4:31-40 Do you ever wonder if we see Christ only as we want to see him? To go further, do we push onto Him who we want Him to be? Maybe what you are molding your personal Christ into isn’t inherently bad. Maybe you think Christ is mostly love so that is how you mold him. Maybe you desire a Jesus who is powerful so that is how you mold Him. Maybe you like the idea that He is eternal so you mold him into your assurance of a heavenly home. In and of themselves none of
