Lent 3C: Repentance as a gift

bridge crossing cityscape
Photo by Ta-Ching Chen on Unsplash; licensed under CC0.


In Minneapolis, near the memorial for those lost in the I-35W bridge collapse, Matthew L Skinner reflects on Jesus’ words in Luke 13. Tragedy reminds us of life’s fragility—but Jesus calls us to see repentance not as loss, but as a gift. How can our Lenten preaching embrace this truth?