Gretchen Abernathy-Kuck The Archer Public Library is excited to announce the addition of a new e-book app made available through E-Read Texas! Patrons who enjoy the library’s Libby app can now also download Boundless for even more e-book and audiobook options. E-Read Texas is a program from the Texas State Library that provides 20,000 e-books and audiobooks to our library.

For many Christians - especially those with a liturgical calendar - we just entered the season of Lent yesterday for the year 2025. The season of Lent ends with the Tridium the three days that recall the Lord’s Last supper, His agony in the garden of Gethsemane, His Crucifixion on Good Friday and His early Sunday morning Resurrection from the dead. Lent began yesterday on what is called Ash Wednesday, the Scripture readings for which open with words from the prophet Joel “Even now, declares the Lord, Return to me with all your heart” (Joel 2:12). It reminds us to Repent and that we’re involved - whether we know it or not - in spiritual warfare. Lent calls us to imitate Jesus who spending 40 days in the desert at the beginning of his public ministry “was led by the Holy Spirit into the desert to be tempted.” He entered into the desert to do battle/ spiritual warfare against the temptations to sin from the devil, the world and the flesh. He emerged victorious from his battles with what is known as the triple concupiscence summarized by the apostle John in 1stJohn 2:16 as “the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the boastful vainglory of life which are not of the Father but are of the world.” He was victorious on our behalf so that in Him, we also might have the victory by the grace of the Holy Spirit over temptations to sin and over its consequence - death and Hell.