Ash Wednesday and the Lenten Invitation to Listen Lent begins quietly. Ash Wednesday does not rush us forward. It slows us down. Ashes on the forehead remind us of a simple truth we often forget: we are human, we are limited, and we need God. We come from dust, and to dust we return — not as a threat, but as an invitation to honesty. Life is fragile. Control is an illusion. And grace is a gift. In a world filled with noise — constant opinions, endless updates, and pressure to

What if the most dangerous thing happening right now isn’t unbelief… …but the slow drift into living as if God’s design doesn’t matter ? We believe in God —but we build our lives like He has nothing to say aboutidentity, sex, marriage, family, money, bodies, boundaries, or purpose. Consider Proverbs 7. A young man wanders. Wrong place. Wrong time. No direction. A voice whispers: “No one will know. This will feel good. There won’t be consequences.” That voice sounds so modern.

“God hates? I thought God is love. God loves me!” Yes — God is  love. And because He loves us, there are things He absolutely refuses to bless  (Proverbs 6). Not because He hates people  —but because He hates what is quietly destroying us. Think about it: If a doctor finds cancer, they don’t say, “Well… I love you. Let’s just leave it there.” Love doesn’t ignore what kills.Love goes after it. And sometimes when these things take root, we start to feel distance from God : • e

“Remember, it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you.” — Romans 11:18 Rediscovering the Story Beneath My Faith "Dear Pastor Jen, For most of my life, I read the Bible as a Christian.I believed it. I taught it. I cherished it.But somewhere along the way, I realized I was reading it through a narrow lens that had thinned the story. The people of Scripture — Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Ruth, David — felt distant, even foreign.The feasts, covenants, an