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Brad Sullivan
1 Lent, Year C
February 17, 2016
Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church, Bay City, TX
Luke 4:1-13
Endure, Master Wayne
In The Dark Night, the second in the most recent trilogy of Batman movies, Bruce Wayne was considering giving up being Batman. The Joker had the city of Gotham pretty well under siege, and he promised to stop if Batman would simply give up fighting and turn himself in to the authorities. As he was wondering what he should do, he had a conversation with Alfred who had raised him since he was a little boy. He said:
Bruce Wayne: People are dying, Alfred. What would you have me do?
Alfred Pennyworth: Endure, Master Wayne. Take it. They'll hate you for it, but that's the point of Batman, he can be the outcast. He can make the choice that no one else can make, the right choice.
I have a feeling that fatherly, sage advice was similar to what God the Father might have been whispering to Jesus when he was in the wilderness being tempted by the Devil. In the se
