Cross Training Ministries Podcast

The theological education of most Christian men peaked when they were at Vacation Bible School. Part of the problem is that guys don't like to read books. Sure, there is a stack of books on their nightstand - but most of them remain unopened. There is an even bigger problem though: the books they have read they can't remember because they never really digested them. Men won't learn theology by sleeping their way through a 1,200 page book.

In this episode, Joe and Evan offer a simpler path to a robust theological education - meditating on classic Christian hymns.

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Attention is the backdoor of the human heart. Whoever wins the battle for your attention wins the battle for your heart. You can take ownership of your attention and steward it in ways that benefit your spiritual growth. 

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To fight sin, you need to remember four words - detect, reflect, reject, and accept.

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There will be times when we fight resolutely against sin and yet feel no relief or freedom from its oppression. We may even feel as if ground is being relentlessly lost – that the harder we fight, the further back we are driven. Such feelings are not a reason to despair. We need to remember the inscrutability of God’s purposes as we fight sin. 
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Killing sin begins with the mundane, not the extraordinary. If a man wants to snuff the coals of lust or anger, the first step is not a silent retreat, but something far simpler: sitting under a faithful ministry of the Word, committing to a local fellowship, budgeting time for spiritual friendship and communal worship, and establishing personal routines of Word and prayer.

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If you're going to kill sin  you have to draw a circle around the whole of your life and label all of it the battlefield against sin.

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The only way to fight any one sin, is to fight all sin.
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To grow in holiness, we can't just be content with killing sinful behavior; growing virtue is as important as killing sin.
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Killing sin requires killing sinful habits.

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In the battle against sin, we don't need to just play defense - we must learn to play even stronger offense.

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