Redeemer West Side
Welcome to the podcast of Redeemer West Side. Our church is located on Manhattan's Upper West Side where we are living out the sacred call by Jesus to love our neighbors and heal our city.
Redeemer West Side
A Time to Die | Ash Wednesday
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Season 5
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Episode 1
TODAY’S SCRIPTURE | Ecclesiastes 3:1-11
Lent begins with a reminder of our mortality and need for reconciliation with God. In Scripture, ashes serve both as a symbol of mortality and as a sign of mourning and repentance. In this passage, Job has an encounter with God in which he sees himself in light of God’s holiness and repents in dust and ashes, a reminder that what changes us (repentance) is not mere information about God but awe in the presence of God.