Blog, Praying for Revolution, Week 5: Deliver Us From Evil
Temptation is an old theme in scripture. It is also the place where the story often starts. Right after humanity is created, the first humans are tempted in the Garden. Right after Jesus is baptized, he is driven into the wilderness by the Holy Spirit to be tempted...
Blog, Praying for Revolution, Week 5: Deliver Us From Evil
Does God tempt us? That’s a question Christians have wrestled with for 2,000 years, and Jews for even longer. Do you really think I’m going to settle it in this blog post? Some dismiss the question out-of-hand, as if even asking if God ever tempts us...
Blog, Praying for Revolution, Week 5: Deliver Us From Evil
I loved the 80s. Pretty much everything appealed to me. The clothes. The hair. The music. It was great to be young and single, then young and married pre-child. I graduated high school in 1980, college in 1985 and by the end of the decade I was doing the work I...
Blog, Praying for Revolution, Week 5: Deliver Us From Evil
This week’s portion of the Lord’s Prayer asks “Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” For a long time, my mental picture of “Lead us not into temptation” was someone about to enter a dark, seedy, Bar-of-Iniquity....
