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Jesus’s Temptation in the Wilderness isn’t just a story of the power of evil or Jesus’s personal experience of it, but the very corruptive nature of power.
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The Tempting Away From God — for Lent 1A
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2 min read
The temptation in the wilderness isn’t a mere trick or a promise of true power, but a false invitation to abandon the very love of God.
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Ash Wednesday invites us to confront both life and death, reconciliation and condemnation, hope and despair and dare ourselves to not look away.
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Temptation and the Need for Discipline
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3 min read
We have a tortured view of discipline in the United States. One that is shamefully unChristian. But, like us, it can be changed.
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Mountain Talk — Command and Love In a Time of Fear
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9 min read
The story around the Transfiguration helps us better understand what is being said up that mountain — and what it all means for us.
Make a New Normal
