Favourite quotes:

How then could I do this great evil and sin against God?

Joseph, Genesis 39:9

The vicious bite of sin.

The scariest thing about sin is not knowing you're in it.
And even when you do know, it keeps telling you it's not a problem.

What a way to die. 
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Be clear-minded and alert! Your enemy the Devil prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for anyone he can devour.
1 Peter 5:8

Weapons of mass reflection.

1. How have you chosen to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin in this last week?

2. What have you done in the last week for your present comfort and/or security?

3. How have you chosen to be mistreated with the people of God in this last week?

4. How have you made friends / stored up treasure in heaven in the last week?

5. What are the weight/s and sin/s that are clinging closely that you need to lay aside? How are you going to do that? What needs to change?

6. What is the single obstacle/issue that is stopping you from considering vocational ministry?

7. What does the bible say about this issue?

Looking at porn?

That makes us adulterers. And when God sees us, he would see 'sinful', 'offending' and 'criminal' clearly written across our eyeballs, ready to pronounce judgement against them. 

Yet Jesus' eyes tasted judgement in place of our eyes. 

In fact, it was not just his eyes but his whole body too.

So, being pardoned by grace, let us all the more protect our eyes lest we get enticed completely and be thrown (eyes and all) into hell.
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If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.

Matthew 5:29

Killing the pirate within.

As we look to the cross it teaches us the lordship of Christ, the grace we receive and the value of godliness.

What a joy to see this in action!

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Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 12:2

Pondering how to split your soul?

Sometimes I forget that there is a heaven to be gained and a hell to be shunned. In gaining Christ and being found in him, we must die to sin—how can we live in it any longer? If we pursue treasures on earth, Jesus says it will be easier for the camel to go through the eye of a needle than for us to enter the kingdom of God.

We cannot serve two masters. Either we will hate the one and love the other, or will be devoted to the one and despise the other. We cannot serve both God and the desires of our flesh. 

Don't hide your soul in this world.

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What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?

Mark 8:36

A random but well-appreciated text I received today:
Bro, "do not love the world or anything in the world" 1 john 2:15
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But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called "today," that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Hebrews 3:13