Our Sacred Roots: The Priesthood of All Believers

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T he S eason of L ent

Fifth Sunday in Lent April 3 - 9, 2022

WEEK 19

The Lenten Season, a forty-day period starting on Ash Wednesday and ending on Holy Saturday of Holy Week, calls us to reflect on Jesus’s suffering, crucifixion, and death. As disciples of the humble Nazarene, we embrace his lowliness and humility, seeking to share the mind of himwho was obedient to death, even death on a cross.

THIS WEEK’S THEME That I May Gain Christ, Philippians 3.4-14

Though Paul had more reason than others to rely on his religious qualifications, he counts it all as loss for the sake of Christ, and the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus his Lord. He has a new righteousness, not his own law-based righteousness, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God. He has a new goal, to know Christ and the power of his resurrection, and to share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, so as to attain the resurrection from the dead. For these high aims he presses on, forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead – the one goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. This is the mature vision of authentic discipleship in Christ.

Daily Devotional Guide Preparing Our Hearts

Invocation: Our Prayer of Acclamation Fill my heart, O God, and enable me to see only you as I seek your face in this time. In Jesus’s name, amen.