{"id":1490,"date":"2024-02-27T19:24:45","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T01:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2024-02-27T19:24:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T01:24:45","slug":"repent-part-3-02-14-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/2024\/02\/27\/repent-part-3-02-14-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Repent &#8212; Part 3:  02\/14\/2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/Recordings\/Trinity_20240214.mp3\">Broadcast<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>                            Repent - Part 3\n                               Joel 2:14\n                              02\/14\/2024\n\n\n        14   Who knows whether he will not turn and relent, and\n             leave a blessing behind him, a grain offering and\n             a drink offering for the LORD your God?  (ESV)\n\n        Today is Ash Wednesday.  This evening, at Trinity Lutheran\n   Church, many of our members will receive ashes in the sign of the\n   cross on their foreheads.  They will hear the words of the\n   funeral service, ``Ashes to ashes and dust to dust.''\n\n        Tonight is one of the two days in the church year when the\n   paraments on the altar are optionally black.  Our sin caused\n   Jesus to suffer death on the cross, and we mourn because of our\n   transgressions.  The forty days commemorate Jesus' temptation in\n   the wilderness after His baptism, a time when He fasted and\n   wrestled with the devil.\n\n        Yet there is hope.  The prophet Joel wrote:\n        Who knows whether he will not turn and relent, and\n        leave a blessing behind him, a grain offering and a\n        drink offering for the LORD your God?\n\n\n        God allows disasters, illnesses, and tragedy to humble us\n   before Him.  This is to call us to repentance.  In repenting, we\n   receive the assurance that our sins are absolved, removed\n   completely, and we are declared holy and righteous in God's\n   sight.\n\n        Along with the forgiveness of sins comes every blessing from\n   God.  Because we trust in Him, we offer sacrifices of prayer and\n   thanksgiving, in the same way that the Old Testament grain and\n   drink offerings acknowledged God's rich mercy.\n\n        We gather this evening at 7:00 p.m. at Trinity to begin this\n   penitential season.  May our Lord bless you during these forty\n   days so that you may know of His boundless love.  Amen.<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broadcast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turn-your-radio-on-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1491,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions\/1491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}