Advent 2025 Part 4: Lead us not into Temptation | Josh Harrison

It’s been several weeks now since we first began tracing the Lord’s Prayer as a roadmap for attentiveness and expectancy in Advent. Along the way, we’ve rediscovered prayer not as a rote discipline, but as the core of our relationship with the infinite and personal God. This week, we arrived at a phrase often spoken, if rarely pondered: “Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.” Here, we’re reminded that Jesus offers more than mere forgiveness—He invites us to follow closely, learning to move through temptation without falling into it, and so experience His kingdom, power, and glory.