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Welcome to Lent at Broadway!

For those of us to whom the practice of marking Lent is new, this is a season of preparation for the death and rebirth of our God on earth. As those who have practiced (or even heard about) Lent for years can tell you, it is often a time of sacrifice, humility, and letting go of comforts and privileges so we can better prepare ourselves to understand Christ’s sacrifice on the cross.

And, as is so often the case, there is another way of understanding this ancient practice.

This year we begin Lent with a reading from the prophet Isaiah, who reminds us that the sacrifice that God desires from us is not that we join Jesus in the death dealing things of this world (i.e. starvation, deprivation, desperation, pain, etc.) but that we break the chains of injustice that Jesus preached against and that ultimately led him (and so many others in his time and ours still) to an unjust death.

And so this year, I invite you into a giving-up of expectation and assumption about how the world is/must be. I invite you into a space of openness to God’s Holy Spirit. I invite you to dream with me and so many others throughout our community and around our world, a God sized dream about what it might look like to live into the Kin(g)dom of God on earth.

What might an economic system that centered the welfare of people over capital look like? How might governance that didn’t assume an authority figure(s) or hierarchy be practiced? How might we resolve personal and community conflict without the privilege of power on one side or the other? And, most importantly, How might we begin to live into these possibilities here at Broadway, even as we dream together of how they might grow beyond us into our communities, our nation, and our world?

It may sound ridiculous to commit ourselves to 40 days of dreaming the impossible with the expectation of living into it here and now.

Perhaps just as ridiculous as following a God who can be imprisoned, defamed, and publicly executed.

Definitely as impossible as rising from the dead and sparking a movement that we would still be pursuing 2,000 years later.

Right?

Welcome to Lent at Broadway.

~Pastor Brian

We invite you to join us as we begin:

Ash Wednesday Worship
February 18, 2026 at 6:45
A community meal is served at 6:00 PM in the Fellowship Hall
All are welcome.