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Sexual Temptation: Three Critical Facts Every Christian Needs to Know

Critical fact #1

We are targeted for sexual immorality.

Some years ago there were weighty rumors about an international “hit list,” a calculated plan for paid assassins to murder strategic world leaders. A terrifying thought, isn’t it? Yet I’m convinced that the enemy, Satan, has maintained such a hit list throughout the millennia. And there’s every reason to believe that mature Christians are at the very top of his list.

If you have a ministry of any sort—public or private—as a teacher, preacher, leader, helper, or as any kind of salt and light in the ...

How do you handle writing on purity and other sensitive subjects without being explicit in a way that’s tempting to the reader?

I never create any mental pictures that could tempt, as I have strong convictions against that.

Fri, Apr 08, 2011
Randy Alcorn
Christian Life, Money and Giving
audio, decisions, eternity, finances, money, q&a, temptation

How do I know if something is an opportunity from God or temptation from Satan? (audio)

In this three-minute clip, Randy talks about how power, possessions, and pleasures are legitimate objects of desire that our Creator has instilled in us, and by which he can motivates us to obedience. The evil counterattacks by tempting us to direct these legitimate desires to the wrong objects.

Mon, Mar 14, 2011
Randy Alcorn
Suffering and Evil
audio, evil, joy, q&a, scripture, suffering, temptation, trials

What does it mean to CONSIDER it joy? (audio)

In this three-minute clip, Randy talks about what James 1:2 means when it says, "Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds."

Tue, Mar 23, 2010
Randy Alcorn
Missions
humility, pride, temptation, united states of america

Ministering in Inner City

Pride is a problem for all of us, but there is an obvious pride in a man believing his sexual vulnerability is less because he is doing God’s work.

Mon, Mar 22, 2010
Randy Alcorn
Sexual Purity
affair, attraction, purity, sex, sexual purity, temptation

Strategies to Keep from Falling: Practical Steps to Maintain Your Purity and Ministry

“Something terrible has happened.” The tense voice was my friend’s, calling from across the country. “Yesterday our pastor left his wife and ran off with another woman.”

Thu, Feb 25, 2010
Marshall Beretta
Doctrine and Theology
christ, nature of christ, sin nature, sinless, temptation

Sinlessness of Christ

If Jesus truly had no sin nature, how could he have suffered the temptations that nature carries?

Fri, Dec 18, 2009
Randy Alcorn
Christian Life
behavior, family, heart, media, mind, movies, purity, television, temptation, thought, tv

14 Ways to Take Charge of the TV

You will inevitably adopt the morality of the programs, movies, books, magazines, music, Internet sites, and conversations you participate in. GIGO—Garbage in, garbage out; Godliness in, godliness out. The cognitive is basic to the behavioral—you become what you choose to feed your mind on.

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Sexual Temptation: Three Critical Facts Every Christian Needs to Know

Critical fact #1

How do you handle writing on purity and other sensitive subjects without being explicit in a way that’s tempting to the reader?

How do I know if something is an opportunity from God or temptation from Satan? (audio)

What does it mean to CONSIDER it joy? (audio)

Ministering in Inner City

Strategies to Keep from Falling: Practical Steps to Maintain Your Purity and Ministry

Sinlessness of Christ

14 Ways to Take Charge of the TV

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