Temptation
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the
devil. He fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was
famished. The tempter came and said to him, "If you are the Son of
God, command these stones to become loaves of bread." But he
answered, "It is written,
'One does not live by bread alone,
but by every word that comes from
the mouth of God.'"
Then
the devil took him to the holy city and placed him on the pinnacle of the
temple, saying to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself
down; for it is written,
'He will command his angels concerning
you,'
and 'On their hands they will bear
you up,
so that you will not dash your foot
against a stone.'"
Jesus said
to him, "Again it is written, 'Do not put the Lord your God to the
test.'"
Again,
the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of
the world and their splendor; and he said to him, "All these I will
give you, if you will fall down and worship me." Jesus said to him,
"Away with you, Satan! for it is written,
'Worship the Lord your God,
and serve only him.'"
Then the
devil left him, and suddenly angels came and waited on him.
Matthew
4:1-11
The Temptation in the Wilderness
LONG,
John St. John
1824
Tate
Gallery
London,
Great Britain
The last temptation is the greatest treason:
to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
~ T.S. Eliot
The quality of expectations
determines the quality of our action.
~ Andre Godin
My prayers and love are with all in Japan following their horrific earthquake and tsunami.
I give thanks that all those closest to me are safe and I continue to
pray for those unknown to me who are still in harm’s way.
God bless Japan!
I had hoped to post a picture of Kei’s middle school graduation here, but his
graduation in Japan has been postponed.
Instead, here is an inspirational picture of Kei from his Facebook page.
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This photo I
took in Hawaii last year took a 1st Place at the Evergreen Camera
Club’s March contest!
I joined the
Camera Club in January and my classification is BEGINNER.
I don’t know if I will ever learn enough to reach the INTERMEDIATE
classification.
Half the time the members seem to be speaking a language totally unknown to me!
http://www.evergreencameraclub.com/?q=taxonomy/term/6
(Click on the thumbnail pictures.)
Pastor Phil and his daughter at Rotary.
One ought never to turn one's back
on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will
double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching you will
reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
~
Winston Churchill
March 13,
2011 First Sunday of Lent
Previous OPQs may be found
at:
http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm
Agnus Day, by James
Wetzstein
Agnus Day
appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org
http://www.derraik.org/calv&hob.html
Genesis
2:15-17; 3:1-7
Psalm
32:1-11
Romans
5:12-19
Matthew
4:1-11