Tiny Groups
While we're not meeting in large groups, we still want to foster community and face-to-face relationship building. To sign up to form or join a Tiny Group, email Kala at admin@porchsf.com

David Garland, “The phrase “every test”
suggests that Jesus faced “the whole gamut of temptation” and not just these three. It also does not mean that the devil is now finished. His withdrawal is simply the conclusion to the testing narrative and a
temporary concession of defeat.”

Winn Collier, “To read the second tale apart from the first does injustice to the whole of Scripture as a narrative, but it also does injustice to Jesus’ decisive action against evil. Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness does not primarily sketch a moralistic story providing helpful hints on how we too, with a bit of Jesus-inspiration, can conquer the Tempter. Rather, Jesus’ hostile standoff with Evil was a reprisal for all humanity had lost in Eden and could never, on our own, regain. When Jesus emerged from the wilderness as Victor, his triumph signaled an end already sat in motion: evil doomed to obliteration and humanity destined for joy.”