Changed By God To Make A Difference For God

Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the 40 days of Lent with its focus on self-examination, confession, and repentance. In our Old Testament lesson the prophet Joel warns about the fierce and terrible Day of the Lord, the day when God judges all our sins. Does this mean we worship a God bent on our destruction and punishing us? Not so fast, my friends. It's always dangerous to pull a passage from Scripture out of its context. Listen to what Fr. Maney has to say about it all and see what you think. Lectionary texts for this evening are Joel 2.1-2, 12-17; Psalm 51.1-17; 2 Corinthians 5.20b-6.10; Matthew 6.1-6, 16-21.