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Youth as The Age of Temptation

?Youth is the age of temptation and the greatest temptation of all is to do what the rest of the gang are doing, right or wrong. Too often it is wrong, for wisdom comes only with maturity, and the road to the maturity of self-understanding and self-discipline is long and hard and there are those who never reach the end of that road.? Pearl S. Buck

Temptation, The Holy Grail and the Rabbit

It's usually not the big, bad, ugly, smelly sins that take us down. It's the ones that look innocent and harmless, the ones that everyone seems to be doing, that are often the most dangerous. This principle is well illustrated in Monty Python's Search For the Holy Grail, where King Arthur and his faithful companions are brought to the mouth of a cavern they must enter to continue their quest. They are warned of a terrible creature that guards the cavern. (Start the tape here. On mine it runs from about 3950 to 4150. They are duly warned of the creature, only to find that it's an innocent looking rabbit. So, one of the warriors casually walks up to kill the rabbit, only to lose his head to the quick, vicious rabbit. It's hilarious!) Okay, okay, that was pretty goofy. Or was it? What if that innocent rabbit represents a lot of the perils of this world that God has warned us about. You know, those things that look so innocent to us and we're wondering, like King Arthur and his men, how they could possibly harm us. I challenge you to believe God's Word rather than the innocent picture you have in your mind. Sin takes you further than you wanted to go, keeps you longer than you wanted to stay, and charges you more than you wanted to pay.

Sneaking a Sunrise Past a Rooster

Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster. --Joe Adcock

Truth and Lies are Beautiful

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

On Reading the Bible More Than Books About the Bible

Temptation, Bible Several years ago when a rash of leaders were falling one after another, I asked my mentor, Dick Hillis, founder of one of the world's leading missions organizations, "Why are all these guys falling away?" Dr. Hillis thought and thought about my question. After walking with the Lord for sixty-some years, he's no fly-by-night. Finally, he told me, "I think it's because they were reading a lot of books about the Bible, but not the Bible itself." (See Psalm 119:11) - Louis Palau

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