Sentences with phrase «struggling against temptation»

There is a difference, Mary, between struggling against temptation and losing, and just rebelling against God's will, saying what God deemed wrong as right.

Surely Mr. Larson is right that the man in question should be able to find in his local church those who can help him with his struggle against temptations.

That line, taken from the country music song «Lead Me Not,» evokes smiles because it underscores a truth: The struggle against temptation is universal.

A good life involves a constant and sometimes devastating struggle against temptation.

Others take on more serious themes, like Dethaw Cotman's To Eat is to Be Ate and Imani Turner's The Snake in the Garden which both explore the Garden of Eden and the struggle against temptation.

Not exact matches

The emergence of destructive forms of rationality is also a struggle in the Bible, where covenantal modes of rationality are regularly offered against the temptations of naturalism and nationalism.

But while we continue to struggle against these sinful temptations, what has been given to us in Christ Jesus is liberation from the shackles of sin that claims us as its own.