Save us, we pray, O Lord! O Lord, we pray, give us success! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! We bless you from the house of the Lord. The Lord is God, and he has made his light to shine upon us. (Psalm 118:25-27) "The next day the great crowd that had come for the festival heard that …
David Jones, Sanctus Christus de Capel-y-ffin
Ivan Kramskoi, Christ in the Desert
Duccio di Buoninsegna, The Temptation of Christ on the Mountain
Facing Into Temptation
This past weekend in my message "Caught" from our series on the life of Joseph, I spent quite a bit of time talking about temptation. I referenced a definition of temptation from the Puritan pastor and spiritual writer, John Owen, who defines temptation in this way in his book Of Temptation: Temptation…is any thing, state, way, …
Matthew Erickson 