I’ve talked about Ash Wednesday here before, and presented a few readings from The Worship Sourcebook. Now, you can freely use a series of new Ash Wednesday resources from the brand new website theopensourcebook.org. As I’ve said before, this is a joint project between Sojourn Worship & Arts Pastor Mike Cosper and Calvin Institute Of Christian Worship Director Of Communications Nathan Bierma.
The Open Sourcebook is similar to The Worship Sourcebook, but it exists entirely as an online resource, and it is particularly good about presenting well-crafted readings, prayers and litanies in plain, contemporary English that those unfamilar with “church” language will be able to understand.
And if you live near Louisville, we’d love for you to join with the Sojourn community to observe Ash Wednesday next week. We observe this event every year as the start of Lent, the 40-day period leading to Easter. This is a season to reflect on the reality of the darkness and suffering around us, and the reason that there is hope even during the inevitable journey towards Good Friday and the crucifixion of Christ.
Our Ash Wednesday service is next Wednesday the 25th, 6:30 to 7:30 a.m. If you’ve participated in our past Ash Wednesday’s, you know what a moving experience this is.
Hey everyone. There were some weird IT problems with this morning’s original post — a link to free seminars, workshops, sermons and lectures from this year’s Worship Symposium 2009 at the Calvin Institute For Christian Worship. That link is here: http://www.worshipsymposium.org/2009/audio/