We begin our six Sundays of Lent with Luke’s Gospel account of Jesus’ temptations in the desert. Mark’s short Gospel, written around 70 C.E. (Christian Era), only says that Jesus was tempted. But about 15 years later, Luke and Matthew expanded Mark’s account by describing three different temptations of Jesus…

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Jesus grew up in Nazareth, in Galilee, the northern agricultural part of Israel. He lived in Joseph’s household, and Joseph was a carpenter. So today, as we finish Luke’s Chapter six, Luke gives us a parable that might have been told by a carpenter, and an agricultural analogy. They conclude…

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