Contributed by Steve Kinnard on Feb 14, 2019
TEMPTATION
Can you see him running, he is running with all his might? Look at the beads of sweat popping out on his forehead. Each step that he takes is labored; he is exhausted from the struggle. Can you see the fear in his eyes as he looks back over his shoulder? Something’s got a hold on him and
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Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 20, 2009
ON TEMPTATION
A number of years ago, the Douglas Aircraft company was competing with Boeing to sell Eastern Airlines its first big jets. War hero Eddie Rickenbacker, the head of Eastern Airlines, reportedly told Donald Douglas that the specifications and claims made by Douglas’s company for the
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Baptist
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A well-known author once told this story of an account he had with sea gulls: “Several years ago our family visited Niagara Falls. It was spring, and ice was rushing down the river. As I viewed the large blocks of ice flowing toward the falls, I could see that there were dead fish embedded in the
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Contributed by Brian Harvison on Oct 3, 2023
Have you seen the Kid’s Candy Challenge videos?
• What happens in the Kid’s Candy Challenge is the parent tells their small child or children that they can have
some candy
• But they have to wait until mom or dad gets back
• The candy is set right in front of them
• Along with a phone to
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Baptist
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Misunderstandings regarding temptation:
1) Temptation itself is sin.
2) We fall into temptation.
3) God is disappointed and displeased when we are tempted.
4) To be strongly tempted means we are as guilty as if we had actually committed sin.
5) We overcome all temptation by separation
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 23, 2010
WILLIAM BARCLAY ON TEMPTATION
"Temptation is not meant to make us sin; it is meant to enable us to conquer sin.
It is not meant to make us bad, it is meant to make us good.
It is not meant to weaken us, it is meant to make us emerge stronger and finer and purer from the ordeal.
Temptation is not
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Brethren
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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"Opportunity knocks but once, but temptation leans
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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A compulsion is a highbrow term for a temptation were not
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THE SEVEN STEPS OF TEMPTATION:
· Tempted – The thought of evil NOT A SIN YET!!!
· Drawn away – strong imagination
· Lust – self gratification and desire
· Entice – weakening of the will
· Lust conceived – yielding to that desire / carrying out the thought.
· Sin – committing the act missing
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Apostolic
JOHN STOTT ON TEMPTATION
"The command to get rid of troublesome eyes, hands and feet
is an example of our Lord’s use of dramatic figures of speech. What he was advocating was not a literal physical self-maiming, but a ruthless moral self-denial...to reject sinful practices so resolutely that we
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Independent/Bible
HARRY POTTER: TEMPTATION
Every great story has great characters. And in truly great stories, the characters go through significant change. This change is called a character arc.
For example, if you’re familiar with the Harry Potter series, you know that Harry starts off in the story as an
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Presbyterian/Reformed
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THE RED BARON AND TEMPTATION
Manfred, Freiherr von Richthofen was a famous German First World War fighter pilot.
He was better known as the Red Baron because he flew a distinctive a red Fokker aircraft.
He shot down more combat planes than any one else on either side in the first World war
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Anglican
A young driver was in a hurry to get to an appointment and illegally parked his car. He left this note under the windshield wiper of his auto: So sorry, but I have circled the block for twenty minutes. I am late for an appointment and if I don't park here, I'll lose my job!
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by James Snyder on Aug 6, 2021
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At the beginning of the week, the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage informed me that she and some of her friends would be going thrift store shopping on Thursday.
I nodded my head and smiled, not knowing where she was going with this.
“Now,” she said, “you will have to take care of your lunch.
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Christian Missionary Alliance