Lent 1 March 10, 2019 The Sunday of Jesus’ Temptation
Lent 1
Matthew 4:1-11
March 10, 2019
“Fight the Good Fight – It’s a Big Deal”
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
I read a biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer a few years ago. He was a Lutheran pastor in Nazi Germany. So he was growing up roughly a hundred years ago. And one little detail about his childhood that really surprised me was that his Dad was very strict on language. He didn’t allow the kids to use imprecise language. No careless words. They were to say what they meant and they were to mean it. Not a bunch of meaningless, filler words that don’t do anything but fill space.
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