Christian believers will be tempted to sin. How are we to understand what goes on in temptation? Where is God when we are tempted? How do we lay hold of the resources to resist and come through these times of agony?

Featured Resources:

– 'Lead Us Not Into Temptation', Sinclair B. Ferguson, Banner of Truth Magazine, Issue 145 (October 1975).

– Excerpt from William Bridge, A Lifting Up for the Downcast (1649; repr. Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 2024), Chapter 7, 'A Lifting Up in the Case of Temptation', p. 214–220. 

Further Reading:

Bridge, William, A Lifting Up for the Downcast

Gurnall, William, The Christian in Complete Armour (single volume or abridged in three paperback volumes)

Owen, John, Temptation Resisted and Repulsed (abridged and made easy to read by Richard Rushing)

Owen, John, The Mortification of Sin (abridged and made easy to read by Richard Rushing)

Owen, John, Works, Volume 6: Sin and Temptation (includes full text of On the Mortification of Sin in Believers, Of Temptation, Indwelling Sin, and A Practical Exposition of Psalm 130)

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