February 22, 2026

“The Wilderness”

“The Wilderness” A Sermon based on Genesis 2:15-17, 3:1-7; Matthew 4:1-11; and Romans 5:12-19 delivered by Rev. Alison Dutton Jacobs at the First Congregational UCC of Onekama, Michigan on Lent One, February 22, 2026
Jesus “full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil.” The traditional forty days of fasting which were observed by the early church in the season before Easter, a season which we now call Lent, were meant to remember these forty days of Jesus in the wilderness. . . .