34 min
Year A, Lent 1, 2020 – Tempted More Than Hearing
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Greetings everyone! We attempt to find pictures that address the theme of each podcast and some weeks it is a lot easier than others. This time, it was like falling out of a tree, just like a well ripened fruit. The Gospel reading and the Genesis reading are about temptation. (Paul makes a connection between the events in his letter to the Romans.) Traditional art and mythos has identified the apple as the fruit given and received in the Garden, but apples likely didn’t grow in the Middle East. I looked up what might have been The Fruit and read it may have been a pomegranate. Scripture does not say what fruit it was; only that it was good for food and pleasing to the eye. Plus, it would have the added benefit of making one “like God”. Being identified with God causes the first humans to take on what is not theirs. Being God allows Jesus to withstand using his identity in abusive ways.
Because we were running short on time, we left Psalm 32 on the shelf. However, we do have these hymns Blest is the Man, Forever Blest (Psalm 32, Part 1) While I Keep Silence and Conceal (Psalm 32, Part 2), and You Are My Hiding Place to offer! Plus, we covered these passages three years ago in our show “The Sin that Ate Cincinnati”. We slay us.
Matthew 4:1-11 – [01:58]
Matthew 4:1-11 worksheetDownload
We begin in EYE smart with some memes about being tested and move on to MATH smart where Jesus’ temptation to turn stones to bread called to mind the transubstantiation doctrine of the bread turning into his body. Jesus’ body falling from a pinnacle got David to thinking about crowd surfing, so we have some images to illustrate that in BODY smart. MUSIC smart contains poetry, so David began a poem about this passage which you can find at the bottom of the worksheet. Click the download button! And for SELF smart, we had some fun remembering an advertising campaign for Klondike Bars, not a sponsor of this show.
* EYE smart – [04:49]* Don’t test me – Professor* Don’t test me – Dolores Umbrage* Don’t test me – Baby* Don’t test me – Grumpy Cat* MATH smart – [06:2...
Greetings everyone! We attempt to find pictures that address the theme of each podcast and some weeks it is a lot easier than others. This time, it was like falling out of a tree, just like a well ripened fruit. The Gospel reading and the Genesis reading are about temptation. (Paul makes a connection between the events in his letter to the Romans.) Traditional art and mythos has identified the apple as the fruit given and received in the Garden, but apples likely didn’t grow in the Middle East. I looked up what might have been The Fruit and read it may have been a pomegranate. Scripture does not say what fruit it was; only that it was good for food and pleasing to the eye. Plus, it would have the added benefit of making one “like God”. Being identified with God causes the first humans to take on what is not theirs. Being God allows Jesus to withstand using his identity in abusive ways.
Because we were running short on time, we left Psalm 32 on the shelf. However, we do have these hymns Blest is the Man, Forever Blest (Psalm 32, Part 1) While I Keep Silence and Conceal (Psalm 32, Part 2), and You Are My Hiding Place to offer! Plus, we covered these passages three years ago in our show “The Sin that Ate Cincinnati”. We slay us.
Matthew 4:1-11 – [01:58]
Matthew 4:1-11 worksheetDownload
We begin in EYE smart with some memes about being tested and move on to MATH smart where Jesus’ temptation to turn stones to bread called to mind the transubstantiation doctrine of the bread turning into his body. Jesus’ body falling from a pinnacle got David to thinking about crowd surfing, so we have some images to illustrate that in BODY smart. MUSIC smart contains poetry, so David began a poem about this passage which you can find at the bottom of the worksheet. Click the download button! And for SELF smart, we had some fun remembering an advertising campaign for Klondike Bars, not a sponsor of this show.
* EYE smart – [04:49]* Don’t test me – Professor* Don’t test me – Dolores Umbrage* Don’t test me – Baby* Don’t test me – Grumpy Cat* MATH smart – [06:2...
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