Luke 4:1-13
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To the glory of God
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8 min read
Exploring the temptation of power and the desire for control, we can see the ways we break community and our common purpose.
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We need to wrestle with the desire to control
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6 min read
In dealing with temptations of power, we are prone to understate what part control has in our lives, the desire to do what we want.
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The Means Are the Ends—for Lent 1C
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2 min read
In the temptation in the wilderness, we get to see the challenge of power — not for Jesus exactly, but for every one of us instead.
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Our Temptation
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8 min read
The devil tempts Jesus in the wilderness with power. The question is what power are we tempted to claim for ourselves?
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Not Tempted
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3 min read
We read something into the Temptation in the Desert. That Jesus is being tempted by the devil. I don’t think it fits.
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Hunger
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8 min read
In Jesus’s temptation in the wilderness, we get a picture of resistance bigger than willpower and faith. A resistance to becoming powerful at all. Resisting temptation and power with JesusLent 1C | Luke 4:1-13 He ate nothing at all during those days, and when they were over, he was famished. It was a traditional practice…