Do Not Harden Your Heart
A summary of the warnings from the early chapters of Hebrews. ...
The Fruit of The Lips
Whatever is right at the brim is what spills out when you are shaken. It is what is abundant in the heart that makes its way out into your speech....
Keep ReadingA Brute's Strength
A man in the grip of lust cannot see that he is pouring gasoline on his house, his family, and his very life–his only perspective is to play with the match in the red dress....
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Past Reason Hated
This is the moment of clarity in the madness. The moment when Satan switches from bedazzling trickster to accurate taunter. ...
Keep ReadingOff-Limits
As all who find once they bite, lust is hollow, poisonous, and fatal–a chocolate covered razor blade...
Keep ReadingCurved In Upon Yourself
It was Augustine who coined the phrase “homo incurvatus in se”, man curved in upon himself. This is what sin does, it idolizes the self, sacrificing, manipulating, killing, fighting, charming, ultimately willing to do anything necessary to the barriers that keep it from personal fulfillment (James 4)....
Keep ReadingNo Secret Sins
Sin is never isolated strictly to the sinner. Like radiation, it poisons those around it, even if they are unaware of what is happening or where it is coming from. Getting rid of Uriah, concealing the evidence, hiding behind walls and doors or cleared search histories cannot seal up the effects of sin. For David, this meant that “the sword would never depart from his hou...
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