Speaker: Corey Ashley
Sermon: “If Only”
Scripture: John 11
Series Name: Lent: Faith Emerging From The Ashes
Series Description:
“The season of Lent is one of the most important times in the church year and helps us
remember the 40 days Jesus spent fasting and praying in the desert before he began teaching,
preaching and healing in public. Lent a time of letting go and reorientation. Life throws us
curve balls that force us to rethink many of our assumptions about life. A death takes a loved
one. Divorce breaks up our family. An unexpected disease strikes. A religious mentor is
disgraced. We lose a business or organization due to a pandemic. A church damages us with
dysfunction.
What do we do when we find out that the faith and beliefs we were raised with or first adopted
as an adult donʼt seem to have gone up in smoke? How do we rise? How does life get put back
together? Interestingly enough, sometimes it is necessary for us to allow our beliefs to be
challenged and go through an overhaul. If we didnʼt, we would be functioning in the world
with a 5 year old view of life. This study is designed to help us look at some significant events
in scripture that turned things upside down and challenged assumptions of the day… what
they believed about God and who they thought Jesus was. Hopefully youʼll find some help in
faith emerging from the ashes of life..”
Be sure to download your devotional to go deeper into our study of Lent.