Matthew 4:1-11 This sermon references two litanies; the Litany of Penitence beginning on page 267 of the Book of Common Prayer and the Great Litany on page 148 in the same book. Both are very appropriate devotional practices for personal use any time in the Lenten season. In nearly every Episcopal Church, Lent begins withContinue reading “Who We Truly Are”
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Temptation at Lunchtime
Luke 4:1-13 In C. S. Lewis’s book The Screwtape Letters, Lewis imagines what the correspondence between two demons might look like. They discuss humanity with contempt, all the while obsessing over the actions, choices, and beliefs of the individual humans they are charged with leading away from God, or as they call him, the Enemy.Continue reading “Temptation at Lunchtime”