The season of Lent has a lot to do with wilderness. Designed to imitate the 40 days Jesus spent in the wilderness, Lent includes the 40 days (minus Sundays) between Ash Wednesday and Easter. In this season we are invited to enter instead of avoid wilderness. We are encouraged to embrace discomfort, instead of letting it be a deterrent...trusting that there is life there.

For our sermon series, Lessons in the Wilderness, we are looking at scripture stories where people experienced the wilderness and considering what God revealed to them there.

This blog is an opportunity for us to journey in the wilderness together through this season.  Each week includes scripture reading, “Stories from the Wilderness” written by FPC elders, and suggested activities to help us embrace the wilderness experience with an openness to what God wants to reveal to us.