After the desert (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
After the desert His time of testing through the fire of temptation beginning to speak Rising there before the congregation ...
After the desert His time of testing through the fire of temptation beginning to speak Rising there before the congregation ...
We must walk with conviction avoiding situations getting in temptation's way to bring us into sin, to death, estrangement separated ...
The choice truly simple between heaven and hell to turn to the world or to God instead What is the ...
Humble before God submitting to the Father's will understanding our humanness because he walked like us Down from heaven from ...
The season corrupted misdirected frenzy chasing for bargains to have this or that All of it a distraction a temptation ...
God calling to us His voice from heaven calling to our aching hearts when we have gone astray like the ...
Dying in the waters falling beneath the waves ritually dying to ourselves into the watery grave With Christ in his ...
Assurance in the words a place of refuge comfort within the storms when temptation costs as it surely will God ...
In hearing of the past the fall of the people a reminder in their history of our own mortality Remembering ...
Not to our own desires turning instead to the Lord strength in our weakness when temptation is at our door ...
What we are to pray for not all the riches on earth seeking from the father our daily bread alone ...
In the way he taught us humbly praying coming before God not with pretense but honesty Praising him, our creator ...
Out of the waters back from the Jordan into solitude a time of testing Alone with the devil no food ...
Forever changed, on the mountain Moses, Christ, those who claim his name Changed by Love, the action, the word of ...
At the tip of his lips ready to use them the smooth stones of the wadi carried in his mind ...
In the reading, the story of his ministry how he came to return to the home of his youth Going ...
In the awakening the moving from Advent to Christmas the fact of the fulfillment Emmanuel born in Bethlehem God, come ...
The Spirit, God eternal to be humbled, the clay of earth taking on the form of man the human God, ...
Where is your treasure, what is your religion deep down, at your very core This question reverberating calling from within ...
Before his time, tempted in the wilderness a baptism like no other a shaft of light, an opening of heaven ...
All he gave, for us, heavenly living, for a manger bed, angels at his beck and call for sheep, for ...
We all are tempted in this life, a coarseness, a selfishness pervades the age the world says all is acceptable, ...
A sword, such in the word of God of the spirit, living in each one of us a weapon, offensive ...
Life is so full, of temptations, leading us, away from the Father, forgetting the love of the Son, the healing ...
We so often forget where we have been So easily see that speck, so blind to the log, to plank ...
Tempted by Satan Tempted in the wilderness He stayed true to God January 27, 2008 Matthew 4:1-11 (Raymond A. Foss)
Deep pools of living, loving water so is our Lord, overflowing with hope hope that we will come to him, ...
The final verse of the reading the lesson for the Hebrews Jesus was tempted Other tellings of the same lesson ...
We are free from the restraints, the bonds which have held us captives, Free from the snares the limits, the ...
We have been given an incredible gift all of us, Jew and gentile, saint and sinner, a gift of freedom, ...
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