Saint Athanasius Lutheran Church

This Lenten season, we're holding forgiveness up to the light and seeing its many colors; it's beauty. It's good to do so. Forgiveness is mentioned so often in the church, that perhaps we forget its beauty, how astonishing it is, and that it really is the most precious jewel the church has. Tonight, the facet of forgiveness we will consider is perhaps the most natural image, and certainly one of the most well-known: that of cleansing, or washing. And so you know, there's a right way to clean something, and a wrong way. So it is with sin.