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CHURCH AT KIRKBURN
www.churchatkirkburn.org,uk page 134 Lent beginning April 2010 1 of 1 29/3/10
In this season of Lent through penitence,prayer and study of scripture we are invited to prepare in heart and mind to celebrate the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ and to claim
The eternal life won for us by our Lord on the cross.. This involves our entering into a personal relationship withthe living God, whose nature and purpose is shown in our Lord. God in human flesh incarnate, The witness of scripture points to our living God who created and was active in our world. When Moses came face to face with God he learned that God is God of the past, the prewsent and the future. “I am who ! am” the prophets consistently called Israel back to God living in their midst.
Finally he came in flesh; living, working and dying for us, that we might have life. The living God demands a response from us. He is not a God of the outside but here among us, part of our lives. We are challenged to choose, to accept hime into our lives fully and completely. We are not able to get rid of him, and even if you turn your back on him,. He will not go away. He is always there, with Jesus, God with us. We can take new encouragement and strength from our journey of Lent with our Lord alongside us, who will lead us through the uncertaintities of life with his grace and mercy holding us and his Holy Spirit directing and renewing our faith.
In our complex lives we are offered, it is said, many choices. Our Lenten journey offers us the
Opportunity to review our faith in our living God for, as in our baptism we are buried with our Lord in his death, so we share in bhis resurrection and new birth in holy spirit. Our choice for Jesus, therefore, is of vital importance ; our future depends on it not just for now but eternally. May God bless you on your Lenten journey and always.
The eternal life won for us by our Lord on the cross.. This involves our entering into a personal relationship withthe living God, whose nature and purpose is shown in our Lord. God in human flesh incarnate, The witness of scripture points to our living God who created and was active in our world. When Moses came face to face with God he learned that God is God of the past, the prewsent and the future. “I am who ! am” the prophets consistently called Israel back to God living in their midst.
Finally he came in flesh; living, working and dying for us, that we might have life. The living God demands a response from us. He is not a God of the outside but here among us, part of our lives. We are challenged to choose, to accept hime into our lives fully and completely. We are not able to get rid of him, and even if you turn your back on him,. He will not go away. He is always there, with Jesus, God with us. We can take new encouragement and strength from our journey of Lent with our Lord alongside us, who will lead us through the uncertaintities of life with his grace and mercy holding us and his Holy Spirit directing and renewing our faith.
In our complex lives we are offered, it is said, many choices. Our Lenten journey offers us the
Opportunity to review our faith in our living God for, as in our baptism we are buried with our Lord in his death, so we share in bhis resurrection and new birth in holy spirit. Our choice for Jesus, therefore, is of vital importance ; our future depends on it not just for now but eternally. May God bless you on your Lenten journey and always.
MARCH 2010
THE LENTEN MYSTERY