We walk into Lent with purpose and unpack how Jesus’ temptations reveal our own: hunger for quick fixes, shortcuts to power, and the pull of applause. The desert becomes good news as we practice hidden faithfulness, resist half-truths, and live as beloved sons and daughters.

• choosing intentional fasting to reveal real dependencies
• Scripture as the answer to doubt and desire
• trading shortcuts and control for trust in the Father
• recognizing the devil’s subtle strategies and half-truths
• practicing unseen acts to break vanity and seek God’s gaze
• daily recommitment to put Jesus first over comfort
• reframing temptation as a moment for grace and growth

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We enter the inner desert to face the three subtle temptations of appetite, power and prestige, and to reorder what comes first. We argue that Lent is not deprivation but liberation when Christ holds the top place every day.

• the desert as the soul’s mirror
• temptation through good things misordered
• bread without trust and the gift of fasting
• power without surrender and the cost of compromise
• glory without fidelity and the danger of applause
• idols formed when good becomes ultimate
• daily choice to put Christ first
• Lent as reordering, not small tweaks
• encouragement that Jesus walks with us in the desert

Choose clearly this year. Choose firmly. Choose Christ today and always. Amen.

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We confront a culture of image and control with the sign of ashes and the call to return with our whole heart. We explore grace over self-improvement, secret practices over public applause, and a Lent that reorders life toward communion and resurrection.

• choosing ashes in a world of image
• restlessness that success cannot satisfy
• return with your whole heart through grace
• the cross as the price of reconciliation
• centering Christ in decisions, money, relationships, identity
• naming subtle drift and numb souls
• conversion as ecclesial communion, not solo
• urgency of now and the mercy of dust
• prayer, fasting, and almsgiving done in secret
• from cosmetic Lent to transformational surrender

Give your complete and total heart to Jesus this Lent

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