The season of Lent has arrived. It's time to repent and believe the Gospel. We are encouraged to remember that we are mortal, as if our bodies would ever let us forget. Lent is a 40-day period of self-examination and self-denial — except for Sundays. Tucked into these forty days are six “little Easters" — days to remember that God in Jesus Christ gives us the victory over sin, over death, over all that destroys our relationship with Him.

So this First Sunday of Lent, I invite you not to the wilderness of temptation but to a wedding at Cana of Galilee. I don't know about you, but I've had all the forced fasting my body can stand, and I have learned over the last year what it means to live by faith and “pray without ceasing." So these Lenten Sundays let's take a new look at Jesus as portray…