Tomorrow is the first Sunday in Lent. In Lent we prepare to receive the risen Lord in faith. How do we prepare? One thing that must be worked out (or understood) is how we deal with trial and temptation, but these concepts — side-by-side — are confusing. Trial or testing is often presented in Scripture has what the Lord works through to refine our faith. That is, God uses testing to strengthen us as we return to Him and His Word. But temptation is a terrible attack from the evil one that threatens to rob us of faith and to destroy us.

How do we put these in perspective? How do we live in the face of both of these?

Come to worship tomorrow and learn how!

Come also to receive where the Lord guarantees He is found: in His body and blood received in, with, and under the bread and the wine of Holy Communion. In this Sacrament which God gave to His Church He intends to feed and strengthen your faith. It is perhaps the single most underestimated resource for our faith! Don’t go along with the blindness of the world. Come to the feast and be blessed!

In Jesus’ Love,

Pastor Espinosa