Sermons on Overcoming Sin (Page 5)

Are you aware that each generation tends to carry things further than the previous one? In other words, when you tell your children they can go to the prom, do you consider how much further they will permit your grandchildren to go?

Secret sins are the most dangerous of all: 1. We often do not notice their presence 2. If we know of them, we easily rationalize them 3. If we have worked to keep them secret, we live in confidence that no one will find out and try to help us overcome them 4. Because they are secret, we have no one to protect us from them 5. They remain inside us, until like a hidden cancer in our body, they…

“A rumor is a social cancer: it is difficult to contain and it rots the brains of the masses. However, the real danger is that so many people find rumors enjoyable. That part causes the infection.” (Crissjami)

Job understood that God permits adversity into our lives. Job understood that it is a natural part of the cycle of life in this world. He understood that how one bears with adversity in this world determines his destiny in the world to come. Then his wife said to him, Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die! 10 But he said to her, You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed…

What are “Besetting Sins”? It is a temptation and sin that one finds it particularly hard for him to resist and often finds himself easily tangled up in it.

“Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?” (Marcus Aurelius)