Ash Wednesday is a good...
Ash Wednesday is a good time to ponder this enormously important biblical word,
"reconciliation." Historically, Ash Wednesday is a gloomy time. We remember: "We are
dust and to dust we shall return." We are marked with a reminder that we really do live
with the burden of our humanity. When Paul wrote to Corinth, he wrote to a very
troubled congregation. There were factions and confusion in that house church. The
divisions between rich and poor, those who spoke in tongues and those who did not,
which preacher to follow, immorality among the members and a multitude of other