Ash Wednesday Service

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Lent Season. This is a season of forty days, not counting Sundays, which is a season of preparation for Easter celebration. Early on it had become the custom of ancient Christians to have a season of spiritual readiness before the Easter celebration. It was during this season that converts to the faith were prepared for baptism. It was also a time for those who had wandered away from the faith to be received back into the community through repentance and forgiveness. The season of Lent invites us to renew our faith and live in the mercy and forgiveness that is found in Jesus Christ. We look forward to resurrection. It is a time of year that prepares us for new life.

Ashes are seen by many as the end. But in the church we see them as the beginning. They begin a season that moves us through reflection and repentance into joy and resurrection. We are being invited to turn back to God, to be reconciled with one another, and to live in peace. We are invited to see the ashes as the beginning of new life. We believe beautiful things can truly come out of the ashes. In Christ, “there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new” (2 Cor. 5:17).

Where in the midst of ashes is God calling you to speak a word of life? Where in the midst of destruction is God calling you to be an agent of change?

Join us at Liberty Hill Church on Wednesday, February 18th at 7PM as we participate in Ash Wednesday Service. Nursery will be provided.