temptation in the wilderness
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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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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 power we won’t acknowledge
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1 min read
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)
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3 min read
Before we find Jesus at the well with a woman, we should check out what the lectionary skipped over, which includes dueling baptists.