With the aid of a range of thinkers, from ancient stalwarts like Plato and Sophocles to modern fixtures like Sigmund Freud and Elias Canetti, he set out to craft a more positive defense.
Gordon Lindsay, Founder, Christ for All Nations Sometimes, as believers, we are tempted to think that people are tired ... LeTourneau hired full-time chaplains to care for his workers and teach the ...
(And none of my Bible scholar readers caught that.) Now, let’s dive into the temptation of Christ, starting with some important context. Immediately before the devil tempted Jesus, He was ...
The bulk of the pope's homily was a reflection on the Gospel reading for the first Sunday of Lent and the devil's temptation of Jesus in the desert for 40 days. "Let us reflect on the fact that we too ...
“Let us consider three aspects of Jesus’ temptation and of our own: its beginning, the way it takes place, and its result,” Czerny said, reading the pope’s homily. “In this way, we will ...
Yet somehow, we have been invited into the desert, to be alone with Jesus as he faces the Tempter. Why? Because his trials reveal the meaning of our own temptations. What is temptation—all ...
The fact that Jesus’ temptation took place in the wilderness would have evoked powerful if complex associations for any 1st century Palestinian Jew. Much of Palestine was (and still is ...
Then, they discuss the Gospel readings for the first four weeks of Lent—The Temptation of Jesus, The Transfiguration, and the parables of the barren fig tree and the prodigal son—and reflect ...
In it we read about how Satan aggressively but unsuccessfully tempted Jesus in the desert ... It can be noticed that in the gospel, Satan quoted Bible passages, but for the wrong reasons and wrong ...