At the Crossroads [Lent 1C]
The Rev. Jeremiah Williamson Luke 4:1-13 At the Crossroads I'm not sure why, but recently I've been thinking about beginnings. And here we are today, at the beginning of a new Church season, standing with Jesus at the beginning of his journey, standing with Jesus at the crossroads. After leaving John and the Jordan River and the voice from Heaven, Jesus finds himself in the desert. His ministry has not yet begun, but it soon will. And the path he chooses in that desert will not only define his public ministry, it will shape his destiny. But not just that, it will shape the course of history. So, no pressure. Jesus was thirty years old when he entered the wilderness. And while we know the story of his miraculous birth, how he was born of a virgin, how the angels filled the Bethlehem skies with song, how kings trembled and shepherds rejoiced, he is still just the son of a common laborer from a small town in the hills – nothing of his adult life before h...