Step on a crack! Oh no!

Watch your step! Oh no!

Have you ever been tempted to step into traffic risking life and limb rather than walk under a tall ladder unfolded across the sidewalk? 

Here’s another temptation buried deep in Christian theology.

Somewhere in a far corner of church history, the Holy Trinity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit turned the number 3 into something sacred. The triangle, with its 3 sides, became sacred as well. The geometry of a ladder, of course, forms a triangle and creates sacred space beneath it. To walk under that ladder would destroy the sanctity of the Trinity and incur certain retribution. A spiritually intricate and delicate gossamer web. And you’ve trashed it! 
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Oh no!

And the temptation that cracks and your mother’s back are painfully related is spiritual, too. 

Cracks — in the earth, on a sidewalk, or almost anywhere — have long been seen as portals to the realm of the supernatural, for both good and evil. To step on those cracks might unleash disagreeable spirits into the world ready to do backbreaking harm. 

Oh no!

Well, there you have two more temptations with deep theological roots that hold no water.

Or do they! 
Might there be others? 
Right in front of our church-loving eyes?

During Our Season of Faith 2025, Rev. Jamie Brame will wrestle with temptations, spiritual temptations, not ladders or cracks, for four Sundays, September 21 through October 12. It should be quite a match! 

Music will be provided by The Four Temptations, four shows only.

Our contest with temptation is only two Sundays away. 
Don’t succumb to the temptation to skip it.
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And watch where you step.

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