What Grace Teaches Us Part 3
October 24, 2013
Many believers find themselves bound in moral sins—sins made easy by the internet’s anonymous access to pornography. So what will motivate any of us to point that mouse somewhere else in our private moments? Today we’ll look at the one bottom-line reality that will convince us to make right moral choices instead of following the slippery slope into sexual sin.
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Despite their best intentions, even Christians fall into sin. It’s easy with today’s media technology. When we fall, we’re tempted to give up, to let the world have its way. But the Bible offers a different path, the path of grace, the path God has provided for restoration and forgiveness, the path to wholeness and usefulness in His kingdom.
October 23, 2013
Christians, like everyone else, are drowning in a sea of moral impurity. It’s hard to use a computer without being exposed to it. Social pressure makes people text all day long. Social media is replacing real face-to-face communication. Our addiction to technology and the rapid breakdown in morality go hand in hand. Today, we will learn how the grace of God gives us a way out of this chaos.
October 22, 2013
The Bible gives us a stark choice: either we love God or we love a world-system opposed to all He stands for. Breaking free from the culture’s grip takes more than theory. It takes clear action-steps we can implement. Today, Pastor Lutzer gives us another action step to help us guard our hearts from what surrounds us—the evil now almost omnipresent in contemporary media.
October 21, 2013
It’s clear from the Bible that we face an either/or: either we love God or we love the world and its corrupt values. With technology now almost omnipresent, how should a believer renounce loving the world? Should we unplug from the internet permanently? Should we toss out our television sets? Today, another positive action step we can take in the ongoing battle for our hearts and minds.
October 18, 2013
In a world saturated in moral impurity, it’s hard to be unaffected. Your computer gives you email, but also easy access to evil. So do we toss out our PC’s, iPads, and smart phones? Is there a way to find a workable balance that protects us from sin but enables us in our daily lives? Today we’ll learn a few lessons from a book written long before word processing.
October 17, 2013
While some issues in life may lie in gray areas, others are black and white. One such issue is found in 1 John 2. John says, “If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” For believers, loving God and the world at the same time is impossible. Today we will take a look at the great divide we all face as the media and internet assault us with their calls to impurity. Who are we going to love?
October 16, 2013
We have all had bad dreams. How freeing it is to wake up and realize that the horror we had been through was not real. Demonic powers use the internet’s ready access to evil lure computer users into bondage. Pastor Lutzer had a dream that he was in bondage, with no means of escape. His experience assured him that all of us must be very careful in our use of technology.
October 15, 2013
In any battle, there can be no victory without a good strategy. This is really true in the war between the media and our hearts. Pastor Lutzer is giving us proactive steps we can take to break the stranglehold the media has on us. Today, we find three such steps in the fourth chapter of the book of James, steps we must take if we want to be free from the seductive siren call of the internet.
October 14, 2013
Every fisherman knows that a fish cannot resist a worm on a hook. That tempting morsel brings the fish to his own doom. Just so, all of us have worms on hooks we find hard to resist. Desire, especially sexual desire, can lure us to do things we know are wrong. Our hearts can be swayed away from God unless we take steps to prevent it.
October 11, 2013
Imagine yourself in a boat that is safe and dry. Across the pond another boat is leaking and sinking. You may think you are okay. In contrast to this, in terms of moral temptation, we are all in the same boat. Whether in the church or not, all of us as humans are prone to moral sins, and the media makes such sinning easy.
October 10, 2013
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