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Posted on June 22, 2018June 20, 2018

Praying for Deliverance [30 Days of Prayer]

“And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.” (Matthew 6:13) Within many cultures, and particularly here in North America, we seem obsessed with discovering who we are. Many times, it is suggested that in order to find ourselves we must leave behind all limits and throw aside all rules. The …

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Posted on March 16, 2018February 22, 2018

Ivan Kramskoi, Christ in the Desert

Posted on March 4, 2018March 4, 2018

Quotations on Temptation

“I can resist anything except temptation.”  - Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan "Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away Paradise. Therefore in all temptations let us consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose." - Richard Sibbes "A celebrated decadent wrote, ‘The only way to get rid of a temptation is to …

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Posted on March 2, 2018February 22, 2018

Duccio di Buoninsegna, The Temptation of Christ on the Mountain

Posted on February 28, 2018February 28, 2018

Facing Into Temptation

This past weekend in my message "Caught" from our series on the life of Joseph, I spent quite a bit of time talking about temptation. I referenced a definition of temptation from the Puritan pastor and spiritual writer, John Owen, who defines temptation in this way in his book Of Temptation: Temptation…is any thing, state, way, …

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