When it comes to succumbing to temptation, we are all pretty good at passing the buck. It is never our…
God confronted Adam in the garden after he had yielded to temptation and eaten the forbidden fruit, he blamed Eve.…
The first step in breaking our addiction to the almighty I is to stop blaming others. As a pastor, I…
To live an overcoming life, we must resist the temptation to choose our will over God’s will but that’s not…
Although there is only one temptation—to choose my will over God’s will—it wears many faces. And the enemy of our…
William Temple writes, “…there is only one sin, and it is characteristic of the whole world. It is the self-will…
Some years ago, I worked with a recovering alcoholic. According to his way of thinking all his problems revolved around…
Jesus didn’t come to teach us how to say “no.” The gospel is not a diet soda, not life without…
Frederick Speakman tells of being grieved by a sermon title he saw posted on a church sign. “Refusal makes the…
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German pastor and theologian, courageously took a stand to protect Jews against persecution in Nazi Germany, saying,…