God proves His own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us..
The death and Resurrection of Jesus is no small thing.
It’s worth meditating on.
to prepare our hearts and minds for Good Friday and Easter.
We follow a calendar that forms and shapes our lives individually and in community around the life, ministry, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus.
Lent is a season of the Church Year that lasts six weeks.
Lent begins on Ash Wednesday and ends the day before Easter Sunday.
During these six weeks, we look forward to Good Friday, the day our Lord died on the cross to pay for our sins, and to Easter Sunday, the day He rose from the dead to prove it!
Meal + Community
Jesus often gathered people around meals. During Lent, we have communal soup suppers together. It builds community and helps us remember that God didn’t create us to be alone and has brought us together.
If Christ Lutheran in Boulder City is not yet your home, we invite you to join us for dinner on Wednesdays at 6 pm. Don’t feel obligated to bring anything. We will have plenty! Come be our guest!
After having dinner together, we have a brief service with some singing, some Scripture readings, and a short devotional message. These services are another opportunity to set time aside to pause and reflect on just how important the death and resurrection of Christ is. It’s an opportunity to consider how much we’ve messed up and how great God’s rescue in Christ is.
This year’s Lenten series at Christ Lutheran Church in Boulder City is “For Us.”
“For us” is not simply a pithy line to use because it is easy to repeat.
It is a confession of who God is and what He brings in giving us His Son. It helps us understand why God would send His Son to die for us.
The phrase “for us” also captures much of the Reformation’s theological emphasis—and Luther’s understanding of Scripture in particular.
Luther went from searching for a righteous God and finding only stern rebuke to seeing God in the form of a little baby and as the one who became one of us for us so that we might become like Him.