Facing Temptation
Posted Feb 22 2010
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation – Matthew 26:41a
What a wonderfully concise directive Jesus gives us for fighting temptation! This world affords a thousand enticements to a thousand different sins. And our sinful nature assaults us from the inside with a complex and varied array of lusts, fears, ambitions, and doubts.
Yet Jesus’ […]
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Posted Feb 21 2010
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me – Philippians 4:13
It is not uncommon in human experience to run up against things that are bigger than we are, that we simply cannot overcome in our own strength. It may be a lust that threatens to consume us, an addiction that repeatedly overcomes us, […]
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Posted Jan 28 2010
The father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief – Mark 9:24
This father brought his afflicted son, who had suffered from childhood, to see if Jesus would heal him. He first ran into Jesus’ disciples and asked them for help, but they could not. By the […]
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Posted Jan 22 2010
Abstain from all appearance of evil – 1Thessalonians 5:22
The best way to face a temptation is not to face it, to avoid it altogether. When it comes to sin, we often set ourselves up for defeat. We try to see how close we can get to moral failure, or heady success, or romantic involvement without […]
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Posted Jan 21 2010
The question of whether abortion is wrong is not a difficult one, when we look at the Bible, although it is a good one, since many today still consider abortion to be a valid option for ending an unwanted pregnancy.
The Scriptures clearly teach that the same person that is conceived is the person that later […]
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