Worship Service: Temptation

Scripture: Luke 4:1-13

Usually we begin Lent with the story of Jesus tempted in the wilderness. Since we are lost in the Dark Wood, we’ll mix it up a bit and begin Advent with this story. The Dark Wood is a place where “the adversary” wants to mess with us, to test us, to tempt us, not to do bad things, but as Eric Elnes points out in his book, to do the things that are not ours to do.