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Podcast: West End UMC Podcast Audio Podcast
Episode: Resisting Temptation
Description: We are pausing reading the Bible beginning to end for Lent and a theme of Encounters with Jesus. Today’s scripture is the story of the temptations of Jesus at the end of his forty days of fasting in the wilderness. The tempter appears and first tempts Jesus with food – turn these stones into bread. The Rev. Erin Racine says it then becomes a battle of scriptures, with the tempter quoting scriptures with the temptations and Jesus responding with other scripture. In each case, as he is tempted Jesus chooses self-control over power. Temptations for us don’t often show up as...