Sermon: A Non-Transactional God By Rev. Will Burhans on 3/20/22

We call Lent the penitential season coming from the same word that penance, repentance, penitentiary derives from, a latin verb paenitere which means to be sorry. It’s an important word as it’s one of the first that Jesus speaks in the Gospels.  For those of us who come from conservative Christian churches, the word comes with quite a bit of freight – “we must repent for our sinfulness or face the wrath of God – repent you sinners!”