Grace & Peace,
Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, the beginning of our journey to the Cross and the Empty Tomb. Tomorrow is the beginning of our Lenten Fast. What are you fasting? What are you giving up? We join with Jesus in the wilderness, fasting for these 40 days, enduring the suffering and also holding on to our identities as God’s beloved ones.
Mark 1:9-15: Jesus is baptized by John, affirmed by God, and sent into the wilderness to be tempted. Then after John is arrested he begins his ministry calling people to repent and believe in his Good News message.
1 Peter 3:18-22: Jesus died for us and was raised to life, having preached to the “spirits in prison” who disobeyed in Noah’s time. And now we are given the sign of baptism to show that we are saved & cleansed within by Christ, who now rules with God in heaven.
What did see/hear/feel as you read these passages?
Video for yesterday’s passage & today’s passage – https://youtu.be/vcURc2AruME
