Resist Evil, Including Self Hatred (Luke 4.1-13)
It’s beginning to look a lot like Lent, everywhere you go. The weather is looking blue, there’s so much repenting to do, and thinking about our own mortality too. Sang no one ever. There aren’t that many secular songs about Lent are there? It just hasn’t got the appeal of Christmas has it? There’s no Lent tree, no Lenten presents or sparkle. It doesn’t have the joy of the Easter Season, with its feast, and the amazing transformative power of the resurrection. Lent’s a bit like the awkward uncle of the Christian year, sitting in the corner, growling and glaring at the rest of the family. Or at least that might be how some of us view lent. But I’d like to change the perception you might have of what Lent is about. Lent, a season of repentance, when we journey towards the incredibly dramatic events of Holy Week, towards the cross and the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. A period perhaps of abstinence, of thought, of seriousness. I think Lent is a very healthy