Our guest host today, Scot Sherman, is the executive director of the Newbigin House of Studies in San Francisco, where he co-founded the Newbigin Fellowship for Faith, Peace and Justice in 2010. He also hosts Conversations for the Common Good, which you can find and listen to online -- Scot has had some fascinating conversations with folks like Jim Wallis, Pádraig Ó Tuama, Van Jones, Austin Channing Brown, and Tony Hale. If that’s not enough, he’s an organist, an opera lover, and can tell you anything you want to know about Lesslie Newbigin or golden-age British murder mysteries.

Scot is also a great preacher, and a priest in the Episcopal Church: I’m so glad he is joining us today as we wonder about God’s good words together!

Luke 4:1-13

1 Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, 2 where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing at all during those days, and when they were over, he was famished. 3 The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become a loaf of bread.” 4 Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘One does not live by bread alone.’”

5 Then the devil[a] led him up and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. 6 And the devil[b] said to him, “To you I will give their glory and all this authority; for it has been given over to me, and I give it to anyone I please. 7 If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.” 8 Jesus answered him, “It is written,

‘Worship the Lord your God,

  and serve only him.’”

9 Then the devil[c] took him to Jerusalem, and placed him on the pinnacle of the temple, saying to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here, 10 for it is written,

‘He will command his angels concerning you,

  to protect you,’

11 and

‘On their hands they will bear you up,

  so that you will not dash your foot against a stone.’”

12 Jesus answered him, “It is said, ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’” 13 When the devil had finished every test, he departed from him until an opportune time.

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