Eternity Church Podcast

A Sunday sermon by Pastor Brett Deal. Sometimes it helps to start in the middle.  You don’t have to be a lasagna-obsessed cat to hate Mondays. Come to think of it, Tuesdays can be pretty rough too. Beginnings can be difficult to get going. It’s like New Years. Future firsts of January sparkle like diamonds against the past year’s midnight, but then the alarm goes off for work on January 2, and that ten pounds isn’t going to lose itself. Perhaps that is one thankful reason Lent doesn’t start with a Sunday mass or an early Monday morning alarm. It starts in the middle of a Wednesday. It seems counter-intuitive in the best possible way. Lent doesn’t begin on the first of the new year, but later, as we trudge slowly and hopefully from the bitter cold of winter toward the refreshing coolness of Spring. The forty days of Lent don’t have to frustrate us like new year’s resolutions or feel like a dour and needless imposition on our time. Each day leading toward the cross can be a single step, a special moment of sel