The First Sunday of Lent Year C
Taken from Twelve Months of Sunday year c
author: N T Wright
contributor: SPCK - N T Wright
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The First Sunday of Lent
Deuteronomy 26.1–11
Romans 10.8b–13
Luke 4.1–13
These readings are not about ‘temptation’ so much as about true worship. Jesus recognized his temptations as distractions from worshipping and trusting the one true God. To see temptation in terms of rules we would like to break, or impulses we must learn to tame, is to succumb to a second-order temptation: to see temptation itself in terms of negatives...
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