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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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To the glory of God
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
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 power we won’t acknowledge
The relationship between the pursuit of control in our lives is also the pursuit of power over others and our environment, even our faith.
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Between Epiphany 2 + 3 (Year C)
Before we find Jesus at the well with a woman, we should check out what the lectionary skipped over, which includes dueling baptists.
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Into the Wild
Mark doesn’t tell us what is tempting Jesus in the wilderness. But we know what it is about. Because we know what tempts us.
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So Much So Fast
This week’s gospel is a whirlwind of action. But it also reveals a pattern of discipleship—a pattern set up by Jesus’s own discipleship.