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This is the Way — Jesus and the rejection of supremacy
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
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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Between Lent 1 & 2
Before we get John 3:16, we have the signs and the Temple and dealing with uncertainty, and a lot of questions.
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The Temptation (Lent 1A)
Wrestling with the Temptation of Jesus in the Wilderness, we can’t escape the story is about power and control.
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Is He Tempted? (a reflection)
The story of Jesus’s temptation in the wilderness is an invitation to examine our own relationship with power.
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Between – the Transfiguration and the Temptation
As we prepare for Lent, the lectionary will have us jump back to Matthew 4, for the temptation: which reverberates everywhere.
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Divine Suffering
Jesus is led into the wilderness to be tempted. Tempted with power, understanding, everything he could desire. Everything we desire.
