"temptation" Tagged Sermons
James 1:12-18 – God’s Purpose vs. Your Temptation
Guest speaker Joe Ferguson preaches from James 1:12-18 on temptation and God’s purpose for your life. Joe serves as a professor of evangelism and church-planting at Northeastern Baptist College in Bennington, VT and as the associate pastor at Open Bible Baptist Church in Cambridge, NY. Island Pond Baptist Church is an SBC church in Hampstead, NH, just seconds from Derry, NH. We also have many people at our church from surrounding cities such as Chester, Sandown, Danville, Kingston, Fremont, Plaistow,…
James 1:13-18 – Keeping Faith During Temptation
How can you keep faith during times of temptation? In this sermon, James tells us about the dangers of giving into temptation and why we should pursue God instead. James says that following God is so much better than following temptation. Temptation leads to death, but God is the path of life. The choice is yours: which will you choose? We need to realize that a better life comes from following God than following sin! Sermon Clip (The teaching sheet…
Hebrews 11:20-31 – Faith: Looking Past Temptations
When we turn to Christ, we are not losing out on pleasures, we are gaining! Will they all be at this moment? No, but there are far greater pleasures coming for those that are in Christ than for those who are pursuing sin. SERMON CLIP (The teaching sheet can be downloaded by clicking on the above “save” button)