Textweek ATLAS - February 14, 2016 - Lent 1C

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Lent 1C
February 14, 2016

Achtemeier, Paul J., "Enigmatic Bible Passages: It's the Little Things that Count," Biblical Archaeologist, 1983.
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"What is at issue is not whether Jesus is really God's son; even the devil is willing to concede that. The temptation has to do with how God's son should act..."

 

Eisenbise, Debra L., "The Desert: Wilderness of Transformation," Brethren Life and Thought, 2005. Sermon.
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"[Lent] is an annual opportunity for us to take stock of those 'yet-to-be-converted parts of ourselves' and to ask one way or another what it means to be who God is calling us to be. Lent moves us to leave aside the cinders (they will wait) and to voluntarily enter into the desert, following Jesus and open to being transformed again by God."

 

Taylor, Barbara Brown, "Settling for Less," The Christian Century, 1998.
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"Worship the Lord your God and serve no one else. Expect great things, from God and from yourself. Believe that everything is possible. Why should any of us settle for less?"

 

Christensen, Richard L., "Deuteronomy 26:1-11, Between Text and Sermon,"Interpretation, 1995.
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"The abundant life and freedom God has given can be lost, and this is what Deuteronomy seeks to guard against..."

 

Neumark, Heidi, "Aliens Welcome," The Christian Century, 2007.
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"And so we come to another alien in the desert. There at the edge, and potentially the tempting end of the wilderness experience, Jesus is given a chance to opt out...To isolate himself from wandering Arameans and parishes desperately in need of all sorts of unaffordable repairs..."