Dear Peace Members and Friends,
Lenten Midweek worship and fellowship continues tomorrow night with worship at 6:30pm, preceded by dinner being served, beginning at 5:30pm!
One long time tradition of Lent is to focus on the passion of our Lord Jesus Christ—the events, the people—and its meaning for our lives. And that’s what we are doing this year, in a sermon series entitled, “God in Pain: The Suffering of Jesus….and Our Own Suffering.”
Tomorrow night, we will look at what is, for many, one of the most moving and disturbing things Jesus said on the cross: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” These words are sometimes called the “cry of dereliction” or the “cry of abandonment.” In that moment, as Jesus prayed those words, Jesus Christ, the Son of God and the Savior of the world, felt abandoned or forsaken by God.
We all pray, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” at some time in our lives. There are a thousand ways we might feel a sense of being forsaken by God—when God is absent.
I will say more tomorrow about these words and prayer of Jesus and our own experiences of God’s absence in a homily, “The Silence of God.”
Join us again on this walk through Lent…..walking with Jesus through his suffering and Jesus walking with us through our own.
Grace and Peace,
Mark