For Your Weekend: The Lie of Temptation and the Freedom to Fail

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Matthew 4:1-11

Brené Brown confessed on her Unlocking Us podcast that when praying at Mass, she likes to change the words of some of the prayers so that they make more sense to her. “I always say in the Lord's prayer 'deliver us from fear and shame' instead of 'deliver us from evil.'” She agreed with her guest that “lead us not into temptation implies that God leads us into temptation.”[1] I can understand how people often misinterpret the Bible, but it is n...