Intro

Dear Friends,

Remember the story of Jesus spending 40 days in the wilderness being tempted by Satan?  Through the centuries Christians have remembered that story during the season of Lent, a period of 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Easter.  During Lent we’re encouraged to pray, repent, give offerings and practice a little self-denial.  The elders of the First Christian Church have prepared this Lenten Devotional to help us make that journey to Easter and we hope you like it.

I would offer a few suggestions for making it more useful.

1.                   Choose a time in your day when you can devote yourself to thoughtful reflection and prayer.

2.                   Keep your Bible near by and if you don’t have one call the church and we’ll fix you up with one!

3.                   Don’t get ahead of yourself.  Read one devotional a day.

4.                   Let the prayer included be a guide to shape the other issues you might bring before God.

5.                   Include a prayer for the person who wrote each days devotion.  They’ve put a lot of work into this and we’re grateful.

I too am grateful for each effort made preparing this devotional and as ever I am

Glad to be your pastor,

Arnold Nelson