HOW TO HANDLE TEMPTATION (5 OF 12)
by Jim Perdue
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 10:12-13
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How To Handle Temptation (5 of 12)
Series: Foundations: What Every Christian Ought to Know
Jim Perdue
1 Corinthians 10:12-13
Over the last several weeks, we've been talking about some things that are essential to our Christian faith in a series called, Foundations: what every Christian ought to know. Today, I want you to find 1 Corinthians 10 in your Bibles. And over the next few moments together, we're going to talk about How To Handle Temptation. READ TEXT - PRAY
*I drove my lawn mower into the pond. You heard me right. I drove my lawn mower into the pond. Clearly, it's not one of my finest moments and it's pretty embarrassing. The only reason I'm telling you this is because I think this story might help you a little bit. Maybe it will keep you from driving your lawn mower into the pond. Now, before I tell you the story, let me set the stage. When we purchased our house in Kathleen there was already a huge hole in the ground but it wouldn't hold water. So, I hired a guy who promised he could turn that giant hole into a pond. He brought in what seemed like a million loads of kaolin, lined the bottom of the hole, we turned on the well and eventually had a pond. I don't know if you are familiar with kaolin but it's a white clay that can be very slick when wet. In other words, very slippery. A little while after we turned the hole into a pond, I was cutting grass on my John Deere zero turn mower. We need a big mower because we've got a lot of grass to cut. It had just rained the night before but I needed to cut the grass so I was making sure to carefully cut around the pond. Everything was going just fine until the back wheel of my zero-turn mower hit a patch of wet kaolin - a bare spot where the grass hadn't grown yet. Once that back wheel hit the clay, there was nothing I could do. All of a sudden, the mower that was riding parallel to the pond cutting the grass on the edge turned perpendicular to the pond and the back end of that mower started going un ...
Series: Foundations: What Every Christian Ought to Know
Jim Perdue
1 Corinthians 10:12-13
Over the last several weeks, we've been talking about some things that are essential to our Christian faith in a series called, Foundations: what every Christian ought to know. Today, I want you to find 1 Corinthians 10 in your Bibles. And over the next few moments together, we're going to talk about How To Handle Temptation. READ TEXT - PRAY
*I drove my lawn mower into the pond. You heard me right. I drove my lawn mower into the pond. Clearly, it's not one of my finest moments and it's pretty embarrassing. The only reason I'm telling you this is because I think this story might help you a little bit. Maybe it will keep you from driving your lawn mower into the pond. Now, before I tell you the story, let me set the stage. When we purchased our house in Kathleen there was already a huge hole in the ground but it wouldn't hold water. So, I hired a guy who promised he could turn that giant hole into a pond. He brought in what seemed like a million loads of kaolin, lined the bottom of the hole, we turned on the well and eventually had a pond. I don't know if you are familiar with kaolin but it's a white clay that can be very slick when wet. In other words, very slippery. A little while after we turned the hole into a pond, I was cutting grass on my John Deere zero turn mower. We need a big mower because we've got a lot of grass to cut. It had just rained the night before but I needed to cut the grass so I was making sure to carefully cut around the pond. Everything was going just fine until the back wheel of my zero-turn mower hit a patch of wet kaolin - a bare spot where the grass hadn't grown yet. Once that back wheel hit the clay, there was nothing I could do. All of a sudden, the mower that was riding parallel to the pond cutting the grass on the edge turned perpendicular to the pond and the back end of that mower started going un ...
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