Ash Wednesday March 2, 2022

Chaplain Sean Crow / Fort Greely Chapel

> Invocation

> Call to confession

> Psalm 39 presentation

> Music – “In Christ Alone”

> Declaration of forgiveness

    Ever since the 12th century, ashes became specifically associated with the beginning of Lent:
A period of preparation to Easter in which we observe a time of reflection and looking towards spiritual renewal in looking to God.
So then:

How can we be reconciled to God?

2 Corinthians 5:11–21 ESV

my notes:

²⁰ Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. ²¹ For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Ps 32:1

Isaiah 52:7

Phil 3:8-11

my notes:

Romans 3:23–26 NIV84

²³ for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, ²⁴ and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. ²⁵ God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished— ²⁶ he did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.

Romans 4:6-8

Isaiah 43:25

Acts 13:38

my notes:

We as Christians now celebrate this day as an outward sign of our need for repentance and acceptance of the forgiveness paid by Christ’s sacrifice on the cross.  

> Thanksgiving

> Benediction