Recently I was chatting with an important teen in my life, Preston Lundbohm. I'm his mentor for Confirmation this year. Recently pastor Steve was teaching on Jesus' wilderness experience with the devil. I felt stirred to write an article about this after talking with Preston. There are important lessons there both for teens and the rest of us.

Both Matthew and Luke gave us the details of Jesus' face-off with the Devil. They are found in the 4th chapter of each Gospel. As we shall see, humanly speaking, Jesus went out into the desert alone. He had no disciples, no observers with him.. Willia...