How can I have announced my retirement? How can 22 years have blown by so fast? How can we possibly pull away from these beloved relationships? Now that it’s real, it just doesn’t seem like it could be real. We will savor every day of these next three months. And, as you will see below, we are preparing for a great Lenten season together.
Lent: Windows and Wounds
On February 8? we will begin distributing copies of Rich Wounds: The Countless Treasures of the Life, Death and Triumph of Jesus. This book by our friend David Mathis, contains 30 pithy reflections on the person and work of Christ. Reviews affirm this study is “sweet balm for your heart,” and “beautiful and deeply edifying.” David is executive editor for desiringgod.org and preached for us in 2024.
To go along with the book, Scott Graham, Lauren Honea and I will return to Jacob Struppeck’s recording booth to create daily podcasts. These will be informal 10 to 12-minute conversations inspired by each day’s reading. Be sure to subscribe through Apple Music, Spotify and YouTube.
As ever, weekly community groups will form to discuss our daily readings and grow in our connections together in Christ.
On Sundays, I’ll be preaching a series called Windows on the Cross. We will look at six Biblical perspectives on the meaning of Christ’s death. From “peace” to “justice” to “atonement” to “victory,” we’ll take a sounding of the deep truths of resurrected life that arise from Jesus’ crucifixion. It should be a rich season!
As ever, I love being your pastor,
Gerrit
From our new building to your earbuds! Lent podcasts are being recorded in “Jacob’s studio,”
one of the offices of in our newly purchased building!
Right Photo: Lauren Honea and Scott Graham. Left photo: Jacob Struppeck and Gerrit Dawson.
