Ash Wednesday

By ministry_matters
Created on December 26th, 2012

About This Bin

"Ash Wednesday emphasizes a dual encounter: we confront our own mortality and confess our sins before God within the community of faith." The New Handbook of the Christian Year by Hickman, Saliers, Stookey, and White. ©1986 Abingdon Press, p. 115.

Articles Ash Wednesday (devotional)
- By Robert V. Dodd
- Posted on January 3rd, 2012
Read: Matthew 1:18-25 "This is how the birth of Jesus Christ took place." Matthew 1:18 Throughout Lent we will be exploring the life, teachings, and …
Articles Ash Wednesday: Beginning of the Lenten Journey
- By Nancy Ferguson
- Posted on February 11th, 2013
Ash Wednesday: The Beginning of Lent The church season of Lent is marked by the bookends of Ash Wednesday on one side and Easter on the other. Lent gives Christians the…
Articles Taking Ash Wednesday Public
- By Emily Case
- Posted on January 17th, 2013
Sometimes making a difference is as simple as trying something new. As simple as stepping outside our comfort zone and trying. As simple as going to Starbucks. Ash Wednesday has…
Articles Ash Wednesday
- By Nancy C. Townley
- Posted on December 11th, 2012
CALLS TO WORSHIP Call to Worship #1: L: Let all the inhabitants of the earth tremble, for the Lord is near! P: Have mercy upon us, O Lord. L: The night of darkness is upon us - …
Articles Standing in the Footsteps
- By Missy Buchanan
- Posted on February 5th, 2012
At last year’s Ash Wednesday service, my husband and I sat behind an older couple who had been our friends since we first joined the church thirty years before. The elderly…
Blog Terrified!
- By Randy Horick
- Posted on February 17th, 2012
Lent begins next week on Ash Wednesday. And for the next forty days (not counting Sundays), Christians around the world will remember Jesus’ sacrifice by giving up…
Blog Blinding Light into Lent
- By Clifton Stringer
- Posted on February 15th, 2012
The harshest and most unwelcome light I can recall woke me up at 6 AM in Brownsville, TX during the mission trips on which my church sent the middle school youth group. Lights…
Articles Sermon Starter for Ash Wednesday: Blood and Dust
- By Jessica Miller Kelley
- Posted on January 14th, 2011
Last Ash Wednesday, I gave blood for the first time since before becoming pregnant with my daughter almost two years earlier. My father and his mother are/were big blood donors…
Articles Confession and Prayer (Psalm 51)
- By Tracey Allred
- Posted on May 1st, 2011
It is said that confession is good for the soul. Although I know this is true, I’m not sure that my five-year-old son would agree. Confession is a challenge for him. For…
Blog 3 Perfect Songs for Ash Wednesday
- By Jessica Miller Kelley
- Posted on March 1st, 2011
Crazy as it sounds, I love Ash Wednesday. Partially, I think, because it seems like such a mystical, old-world observance. Bowing my head to receive a cross of ashes while…
Blog Dust
- By Jessica Miller Kelley
- Posted on March 1st, 2011
I often say Ash Wednesday is my favorite liturgical holiday. I discovered the wonder and beauty of high-church worship in college. Admittedly, this took several months of steady…
Articles 5 Themes for Ash Wednesday
- By Lucy Lind Hogan
- Posted on February 1st, 2011
Every year on the Wednesday six and-a-half weeks before Easter Day, the church, the body of Christ, once again sets off on its Lenten journey. While we know that the cross, and…
Articles The Invisible Cross
- By Adam Thomas
- Posted on January 26th, 2011
For many years, I became queasy at the thought of having ashes scraped across my forehead — not because they are a reminder of my own mortality, not because I dislike…