Posted in temptation on Oct 23rd, 2014
It’s so easy to get tangled up in multiple messes of everyday life to the point of distraction from God stuff.
It happens to us all.
Health woes.
Money woes.
Job woes.
Family conflict woes.
Car woes.
Personal morality — or immorality — woes.
Real estate or house repair woes.
The list goes on and on.
So […]
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Posted in temptation on Jan 2nd, 2014
I spent more than a few winters in Indiana and that required dealing at times with icy, slippery roads.
Invariably, driving on such roads meant passing a car or two that had slidden into a ditch or onto a sidewalk.
I didn’t experience such a misfortune because I always kept my eyes on the road, hands on […]
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Posted in temptation on Apr 23rd, 2013
One of the lessons that teens typically have to learn the hard way is that parents are usually a lot smarter than the teens might want to admit.
Within a few years of leaving home, most teens realize that Mom and Dad were right more often than the teen had thought.
And that usually means that there […]
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Posted in temptation on Aug 15th, 2012
Perhaps you know a financially struggling believer who is being tempted to cheat his/her employer of expenses money or the IRS of taxes or perhaps even God of the tithes and other offerings that He expects.
Perhaps you know an emotionally struggling believer whose marriage is in poor shape and who is eyeing that “green grass” […]
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