At that time: Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness for forty ...

If we were having a casual conversation outside of church, perhaps at a Wendy’s, and I brought up “The Temptations,” you ...

It’s all too easy to ask, with the cynical voices of Psalm 78:19, “Can God spread a table in the wilderness?” What takes more courage is to hold open our empty hands to the Jesus who walks with us ...

The Sunday gospel lectionary reading for Lent 1 in Year C is Luke 4.1–13, Luke's account of the temptation of Jesus in the desert. (The link to the video discussion of this passage can be found at the ...

This wilderness was an unshepherded space ... who loved the social justice component of their churches but were missing some Jesus, some Holy Spirit, some of the emotional and theological ...

The video begins by explaining that the forty days of Lent mirror the forty days Jesus spent in the wilderness, where he overcame temptation from the devil. The video then moves on to some of the ...

When our New Year’s resolutions fail, do we give them another go at Lent? Is Lent just a Catholic self-improvement program or ...

spent time in the wilderness wore simple basic clothing ... Matthew records that when Jesus asked John to baptise him, John was reluctant to do so. This could be for the following reasons ...