LENT & EASTER | Ash Wednesday

We have returned for another season - season 4! - and it is all about Jesus this term, with a focus on preparing our hearts and minds for Easter.

Here are the bible verses quoted in today's episode:

Bible Passage: Jonah 3:5-10

“They believed God's message and set a time when they would go without eating to show their sorrow. Then everyone in the city, no matter who they were, dressed in sackcloth.

6 When the king of Nineveh heard what was happening, he also dressed in sackcloth; he left the royal palace and sat in dust. 7-9 Then he and his officials sent out an order for everyone in the city to obey. It said:

None of you or your animals may eat or drink a thing. Each of you must wear sackcloth, and you must even put sackcloth on your animals.

You must also pray to the Lord God with all your heart and stop being sinful and cruel. Maybe God will change his mind and have mercy on us, so we won't be destroyed.

10 When God saw that the people had stopped doing evil things, he had pity and did not destroy them as he had planned.”

Our sins are a blockage for us being friends with God.

The only way to get rid of the block is to say sorry and repent for our sins.

Bible Passage: Matt 4:17

Then Jesus started preaching, “Repent! Turn back to God! The kingdom of heaven will soon be here.”

Bible Passage: 1 John 1:9

“But if we confess our sins to God, he can always be trusted to forgive us and take our sins away.”

Today's Questions:

• How do you feel when you have done something wrong, something terrible, and you wish you hadn’t done it? What do you do?

• If you are sorry for your sins, spend some time praying together right now, wherever you are, confessing your sins to God, repenting and turning back to God.