Using God’s Word to Resist Temptation

(The following is the January 4 devotional from my Next Step Devotions book. Before reading it, I suggest you read Matthew 4 and pay close attention to verses 1-11.) Lessons from Jesus’ wilderness temptation can help us during our temptations. One lesson his experience teaches is that facing temptation is not necessarily sinful. If it were, then Jesus sinned. …

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Memorizing Scripture – Old School and Still Relevant

There is nothing glamorous about it.  It is accomplished most often from rote memory work using basic resources.  It isn't something you to do to impress others or show off your knowledge.  It's easy to forget about doing.  If you forget about it for too long, much of your previous hard work goes out the …

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