Catching up...

Today I found notes from the first time Steve Johnson preached, back in September I think.  The message was from  Luke 4:1-13, the temptation of Christ.

First he cited these two quotations from The Screwtape Letters.  Both are advice from Screwtape to his nephew Wormwood:

“He [God] cannot tempt with virtue as we can with vice.”


“Our work is impaired when, in the face of no evidence of God’s presence or intervention, they obey anyway.”



Then these three tips for overcoming temptation:

1. Be proactive:   Devotions, Bible reading = “spiritual sweat” - you have to work at it!
2. Be surrounded:   We are not required to do it alone.
3. Be aware:   On earth, we are never far from temptation. “The devil departed until an opportune time.”  (Luke 4:13)