Wilderness Journey

On the first Sunday of Lent, we begin a Wilderness Journey from here to Easter. This week, our wilderness journey will take us through the valley of temptation. Next week, we will skirt the annoying thicket of obedience. Our mission will take us the following week to where the winds of the Spirit of truth blow. On Palm Sunday, we must pass the gaping chasm of Jesus’ betrayal. Our wilderness journey will end at the sunrise service on the beach when we celebrate our journey through the wilderness. The wilderness is a place of self-reflection, and after forty days of self-reflection, we will leave the wilderness to embrace the stunning fact that Jesus has indeed risen. After the wilderness, after we know ourselves better when Easter arrives, we will celebrate and assure each other that Christ is indeed resurrected from the dead… for us.