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Broken cisterns are idols, God-substitutes. They are the spiritual hot dogs we ingest on the way to God’s banquet. They dull and eventually kill our appetite for the deep and nourishing richness of his holy fare. Like the Turkish delight the witch gives to Edmund in C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch,…

A couple was celebrating a very special occasion, not only were they both celebrating their 60th birthday but they were also celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary. As they were spending a quiet night together, a fairy came to visit them. The fairy said, “Since you have been such good and loving…

During his courtship with Sarah. "When I am violently beset with temptation or cannot rid myself of evil thoughts, I do sum in arithmetic or geometry or some other study, which necessarily engages all my thoughts and unavoidably keeps them from wandering." Source: /God Entranced Vision of All Things,…

A young woman is visiting her parents. While helping her mother fix dinner, she opens the refrigerator. On the inside of the door, she sees a spicy picture of a lovely, slender, perfectly built young woman. "What's this about, Mom?" she asks. "Oh, I put that up there to remind me not to overeat," the…

Greed is the logical result of the belief that there is no life after death. We grab what we can while we can however we can and then hold on to it hard.—Sir Fred Catherwood, British politician Famous Russian author Leo Tolstoy once wrote a story about a successful peasant farmer who was not satisfied…

Definition on Desire The World’s Perspective Is…Desirable First. John cautioned that the world system is desirable. The word lust (used in 1 John 2:16) literally means “desire.” When we hear the word lust today, we usually think of its sexual implications, but this word in the Greek New Testament isn’t…

Survey Results from 12/04/06 Over 500 pastors took last week’s SermonCentral Newsletter survey. Here are the results. Charts wouldn't copy. See My documents, sermons, illustrations

But if you are a poor creature—poisoned by a wretched upbringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels—saddled, by no choice of your own, with some loathsome sexual perversion—nagged day in and day out by an inferiority complex that makes you snap at your best friends—do not…

Temptation: A Biblical Overview Temptation: Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God cannot be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one. But each one is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desires. Then when desire conceives, it gives birth to sin, and when sin…