The season of Lent invites us to a sacred journey of reflection, repentance, and renewal. Lent is a time set apart in the church calendar to prepare our hearts for the celebration of Easter. It is a season of forty days (excluding Sundays) modeled after Jesus’ time of fasting and prayer in the wilderness. Through prayer, fasting, and acts of devotion, we seek to draw closer to God and deepen our faith.

 

One of the spiritual disciplines we are engaging in at CUMC this Lenten season is spiritual journaling. A Lenten journal is available for pick up at the church. It includes daily scripture readings and guiding questions to help reflect on God’s work in our lives. We encourage everyone to use this journal as a tool for daily devotion, taking time each day to meditate on God’s word and record their thoughts, prayers, and spiritual insights.

 

Additionally, we invite you to join our Wednesday evening small group at 6:00 PM in Room 203, where we will share reflections from our journals. While journaling is often a private practice, sharing what we have learned and experienced in our daily walk with God can be deeply enriching and inspiring. These gatherings will be a space for encouragement and spiritual growth as we journey through Lent together.

 

Our Lenten sermon series, "Grace Upon Grace," will guide us in exploring the depth of God’s grace as revealed in the Letter to the Romans. Each week, we will reflect on a different aspect of grace—our need for God’s grace which seeks us, saves us, transforms us, and sustains us. Romans reminds us that grace is at the very heart of our faith, shaping our relationship with God and with one another.

 

“Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God.” (Romans 5:1-2)

 

May this Lent be a time of renewal and growth, where we experience God’s abundant grace in fresh and meaningful ways.

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In Christ’s Love, 

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Pastor Won