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  • Carla Powell avatar

    Practicing Your Piety In Secret

    Contributed by Carla Powell on Jan 2, 2002
    based on 91 ratings
     | 6,155 views

    The life of faith is low-profile. We minimize ourselves so that God can be magnified and glorified. Contrasts showy piety and quiet faith actions.

    Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day in Lent, the season of the church year during which we focus our attention on our devotion to God before Easter. Ash Wednesday gives us an unusual opportunity to focus on our mortality and our sin. These are not popular topics, nor issues that we like to ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    Ash Wednesday

    Contributed by Ian Bullock on Feb 16, 2021
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,618 views

    What does the journey of Lent mean to us, and why is Ash Wednesday such an important beginning point for us as Christians.

    In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. Remember thou art dust and to dust thou shalt return, turn away from sin and be faithful to Christ. Words which we recognise to be as central today to our worship, as our act of communion. They signal the beginning of the Holy season of Lent ...read more

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    Denomination: Anglican

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    Ash Wednesday Sermon "Sinfulness

    Contributed by Tim Zingale on Feb 25, 2001
    based on 127 ratings
     | 17,612 views

    A sermon for Ash Wednesday dealing with Sinfulness

    Ash Wednesday Sermon Psalm 51:1-13 Sinfulness On this Ash Wednesday my Lenten journey begins...I am like a fisherman who launches his boat at dawn on the way to deep waters... The morning seas are calm; but the fisherman knows a storm can come with little warning. The boat may be buffeted ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    Corporate Versus Private Worship

    Contributed by Ronald Harbaugh on Feb 5, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 7,441 views

    A Sermon for Ash Wednesday, with outreach to two congregations without pastors.

    Ash Wednesday, February 6, 2008 Grace be unto you and peace, from God our Father and from our Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen. Let us pray: Dear Heavenly Father, this evening we begin another season of Lent, another journey in faith as we attempt to follow our Lord on the road to Jerusalem and the ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    Have Mercy

    Contributed by Joel Hoyer on Nov 8, 2018
     | 4,207 views

    First in a series on Psalm 51

    2 Samuel 11:1-16, 26; 12:1-13; Psalm 51:1 (Create in Me a Clean Heart #1) Have Mercy Just so that I don’t have to ignore the elephant in the room… Today we have an odd combination to put before you: Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day. A day full of bitterness and ashes meets a day full of ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • Michael B. Perrott avatar

    Journeying With Jesus Through Lent #1: ‘into The Wilderness' Series

    Contributed by Michael B. Perrott on Feb 27, 2009
    based on 46 ratings
     | 32,481 views

    A SERMON FOR THE FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT 2009. We accompany Jesus into the wilderness and an encounter with the Tempter

    Mark 1:9-15 (Genesis 9:8-17) Journeying with Jesus through Lent #1: ‘Into the Wilderness’ Sermon Series: Lent 2009 Both our stories from the Bible have common themes for us today, as last Wednesday (Ash Wednesday) we began our Lenten preparations, and as the global economic crisis seems to cast ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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    Learning From The Gentle Jesus

    Contributed by Richard Schwedes on Oct 29, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,115 views

    An Ash Wednesday sermon, that encourages to learn from the gentle Jesus.

    ASH WEDNESDAY SERMON Ash Wednesday is a bit like a reminder phone call. The alarm going off for an early wakeup call, or the mark on the calendar or diary indicating that something important is coming soon and we need to prepare for it. Ash Wednesday is the start of us preparing for Easter. We ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • Steven Simala Grant avatar

    Planning And Packing Series

    Contributed by Steven Simala Grant on Feb 26, 2013
    based on 1 rating
     | 9,715 views

    This is an introduction to Psalm 51.

    I hope that you all know that today marks the first Sunday of Lent, which is the season of preparation for our greatest Christian celebration, that of the Resurrection of Jesus. I won’t be at all surprised if that comes as news to many of you, especially as the official beginning of Lent ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Marilyn Murphree avatar

    "Making Sure Our Children Have Faith" Series

    Contributed by Marilyn Murphree on Jun 6, 2005
    based on 16 ratings
     | 4,580 views

    What can parents do to make sure their children have faith in the years to come. Today’s scripture shows three vital things.

    Iliff and Saltillo UM Father’s Day June 19, 2005 “Making Sure Our Children Have Faith” Deut. 6:4-9 INTRODUCTION: Have you ever wondered if your children and grandchildren will have faith in God as the years go by? The same was true at the time when Moses lived. At the ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    Lent

    Contributed by Mathew Philip on Mar 17, 2023
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,676 views

    The Lent Season is a season of testing our spiritual health and readiness for the end of our life in this world or the second coming of Christ.

    Lent is the season of forty days (excluding Sundays) leading up to the passion week and Easter. The church calendar starts this season with Ash Wednesday as the start of the Lenten journey of forty weekdays (Monday through Saturday) that takes the church to the eve of Easter. Ash Wednesday ...read more

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    Denomination: Other

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    Repairer Of Broken Walls

    Contributed by Jonathan Twitchell on Jul 25, 2006
    based on 10 ratings
     | 21,329 views

    An invitation to a holy lent, speaking about the desire for revival, and recognizing that revival must be empowered by God, beginning with us (not them).

    Having grown up attending a church that had little to no emphasis on fasting, Ash Wednesday, or the season of Lent, I’ve grown to approach this season with anticipation and trepidation at the same time. I appreciate the recognition of the passage of time toward Good Friday and Easter. After all, ...read more

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    Denomination: Nazarene

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    Celebrity Jesus Series

    Contributed by Monty Newton on Apr 18, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,880 views

    Jesus is a celebrity to the fanciful and a life-changer to the faithful.

    Palm Sunday Title: Celebrity Jesus Text: Matthew 21:1-11 Thesis: Jesus is a celebrity to the fanciful and a life-changer to the faithful. Lenten Series: Reflecting, Repenting and Returning to God The Lenten Season is a time for reflection, repenting of our sin and returning to God. ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Roberta Karchner avatar

    1 Shattered Commitments Series

    Contributed by Roberta Karchner on Feb 21, 2020
     | 5,418 views

    Here in Lent we explore stones. We begin today with the shattering of the commitment between God and God's people. Let us take up our stones and walk to the freedom of Easter and the rolling back of the stone.

    Exodus 32 =:1--24 NRSV When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered around Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make gods for us, who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • John Vella avatar

    Elements Of Renewal

    Contributed by John Vella on Feb 5, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,234 views

    Prayer leads to an awareness of where we need to change. This awareness then calls for a putting away of negative elements in our behaviour ( we call that fasting). This in turn calls forth a new way of relating to others which is concretely expressed i

    Seeds for Sowing, Vol. IV, Issue 3, No. 16 First Sunday of Lent (Year B) March 12, 2000 Readings: * Genesis 9:8-15 * 1 Peter 3:18-22 * Mark 1:12-15 Elements of Renewal Mixed Feelings There are many things in life that call forth mixed feelings from ourselves. At the same time, we both want to ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

  • Rich Anderson avatar

    A Quiet Mind Series

    Contributed by Rich Anderson on Jan 19, 2011
    based on 9 ratings
     | 13,627 views

    The season of Lent provides for us a time of renewal, commitment or recommitment, repentance and prayer.

    Ever since 325 AD, we celebrate Easter on the first Sunday that occurs after the first full moon following the vernal equinox (March 21st.) As you know, the date of Easter changes from year to year and this is why. Easter will always be recognized between March 22nd and April 25th and only ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church