The Gospel for the First Sunday of Lent is always the Temptations of Christ in the desert, taken consecutively each year during the three year cycle of readings (Lectionary) from each of the three ...

After Jesus was baptized, he journeyed into the wilderness for forty days and was tempted by the Devil. Turning stones into bread, bowing to Satan, and putting God to the test were the three ...

In both Luke’s and Matthew’s Gospels, Jesus begins his public life with a retreat into the desert. In the Judaic tradition, the desert is the place where one encounters God. Jesus goes into the desert ...

We hear the Gospel on Sundays, but it is worth reflecting on it throughout our week. Here are a few random thoughts on last week’s Gospel. The First Sunday of Lent always focuses on Jesus’ temptation ...

We are learning about the three temptations of Christ as he went into the dessert. Starting in Matthew 4:3, we read "Now when the tempter came to him, he said, 'If you are the Son of God, command that ...

Temptations become even more difficult to resist when I don’t recognize them. Oh, sure, I can spot bank robbery and adultery and murder. But certain evils fly in under my spiritual radar because they ...

Jesus was really tempted? If you think it's a widely accepted idea, Google reactions to The Last Temptation of Christ. When Nikos Kazantzakis' book came out in 1955, the Catholic Church added it to ...

This Gospel lesson is intended to give us hope and encouragement in the face of evil, temptation and sin. The Scripture commentators remind us when we reflect on this Gospel lesson that all the words ...

Christians must deny the urge to posture, which comes from a place of insecurity. This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. For a long time, I have feared that my fellow ...

This required Jesus understanding the nature of each temptation and it required Jesus knowing the right passage to use in response. We know this proved to be an effective strategy because the end of ...