Tag Archives: Satan
Sermon: Giving into Temptation
We all face times of trial. We are all tested. The forty days of Lent, spent in self-examination and repentance, by prayer and fasting, by self-denial and acts of generosity, and by reading and meditating on the word of God, provide us in practice not giving in to temptation. Lent trains us to resist temptation’s wheedling ways. Continue reading
Sermon: Holy Spirit and evil spirits
It is hard to rightly judge enthusiasm manufactured by living men before our own eyes, whether that enthusiasm is the Jesus Movement within first-century Judaism, the excesses of Francis of Assisi, Protestantism, Methodism, the movement for the ordination of women, the struggle for churches to welcome LGBTIQ+ people, Pentecostalism, and so on, and so forth. If we are not going to join the scribes in their eternal sin, we need to be constantly open to the new things the Holy Spirit is doing, and this will demand much discernment. Continue reading
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