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Episode: Observing a Holy Lent
Description: Observing a Holy Lent – This is our Ash Wednesday service of the imposition of ashes, a time of introspection and confession in the forty days leading up to the Easter celebration of the resurrection of Jesus. Rev. Shannon Baxter, our Pastor of Congregational Connection, delivers the homily. In a sense, through these forty days we walk with Jesus through the forty days he spent in the wilderness after his baptism. We also look for practices that help us turn the focus from ourselves to God. One of those might be to sacrifice our riches, which seems in some ways to ma...