What's inside
Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of our journey to the cross each year during Lent.
In this month's devotion, Michael Seifert reminds us that the cross is central in that journey.
Jesus’ humble obedience—even to death on a cross—is put on display in Christopher Doerr’s article “Ultimate humility, ultimate love.” Doerr reminds us that this type of self-consuming obedience and service is what God demands of us in our Christian lives.
We won’t do that perfectly. We will slip and fall—in sin and in our service. This month’s “Please explain” examines truths about Christians and sin, faith and forgiveness, as it answers the question “What am I to think when I see Christians doing wrong things?”
In the end, God promises to be with us on our journey through this life, hiding us and our wrongdoings under Christ’s perfection (as we see in "Tucked away safely") and surrounding us with his love and protection ("You are surrounded").
God bless your Lenten journey.
- Julie Wietzke, managing editor
