Topic Features About Temptation
Luke 4:1-13
1st Sunday in Lent - Year C
February 17, 2013
The Rev. Brian Erickson
(
UMC)
Lent rolls around every year, but for most Christians, it is less like a birthday and more like a flu vaccination.
We know Lent is necessary, that it's good for us in much the same way cauliflower might be. We've heard all the preachers' clichés as to how it makes the joy of Easter possible, but the truth of the matter is that Lent never comes naturally.
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The Rev. John Gunn
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other)
In this episode of Be Still and Know, The Rev. John R. Gunn states, "Man meets temptations and difficulties of every sort, but with God's power and his own will to follow God, man can overcome each difficulty. Hate becomes love, weakness turns to strength, sin to holiness and the mystery of death into the mystery of eternal life."
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