It is Lent - What is Holy Week?

LCMS/Concordia Publishing House. Remember to pray for the persecuted church at Sunday church service!

"The cross. It is Lent. It is a time to focus on the cross of Jesus Christ.

 

First and foremost, Christians see the cross as the punishment for their sin. Luther wrote, “They contemplate Christ’s passion aright who view it with a terror-stricken heart and a despairing conscience,” because they know they deserve the cross. --- But Christians also see the cross as the pattern for their life.



Luther wrote, “After your heart has thus become firm in Christ, and love, not fear of pain, has made you a foe of sin, then Christ’s passion must from that day on become a pattern for your entire life."


"The cross": (Full text) by Jonathan W. Rusnak (LCMS)
http://blogs.lcms.org/2015/the-cross





"What is Holy Week" (video 2:18)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2O3Udn1dkc&list=PLxogXfoRgsrgFBa2WnnerbBKZYSVAnpXr










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Eph. 3:20-21 "Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen."