“Keep Climbing” (A13: First Sunday in Lent)
Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7; Psalm 32; Romans 5:12-19; Matthew 4:1-11 McDougal weaves Langston Hughes, Jesus’ wilderness testing, and Martin Luther King Jr.’s midnight prayer to address weariness and temptation. McDougal says believers grow vulnerable when tired...
A14: The First Sunday in Lent, Year A (2023)
David Lose, Senior Pastor of Mount Olivet Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, preaches from Matthew 4:1-11, the story of Jesus’ temptation. Lose says that the authors of Matthew and Luke believe that “in the story...
C15: The First Sunday in Lent, Year C (2022)
“It makes light of the temptation of Jesus, doesn’t it, to compare it to that feeling we have when the waiter asks us if we’d like to see a dessert menu? Yes, we’d like to...
A14: The First Sunday in Lent, Year A (2020)
Ryan Ahlgrim, pastor of First Mennonite Church, Richmond, Virginia, begins by listing several temptations he faces…eating potato chips while watching TV, ordering a steak at a restaurant, buying a new sport coat or dress shirt,...
A15: The First Sunday in Lent, Year A (2017)
Rev. Dr. Tracy Hartman, former Daniel O. Aleshire Professor of Homiletics and Practical Theology at the Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond, gives an unusual spin to the story of Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness from...