Since I’m out of town rejoicing with family in the birth of my first grandchild, here is a word from last year on the First Sunday in Lent 2018. Blessings to you all, and thanks for bearing with the content re-run. We will return to our regularly scheduled postings later this week!
—JPW
Beware the spiritual daredevil in you…
Hear the full audio of “Throw Yourself Down?”
A sermon on Matthew 4:1-11 (ESV)
First Sunday in Lent / 18 February 2018
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.”
But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, “‘He will command his angels concerning you,’…
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