This is a sermon I preached on the Facing UP series at St-Marc’s. We usually do a study series during Lent that the entire church is invited to participate in. To do this, we have had a light “lenten lunch after the church service, consisting of a soup and bread with a piece of fruit. The series has been well received, with a good turnout for each sermon.
The series focuses on the idea of facing up to various challenges to faith in our lives, such as temptation, injustice, materialism and family problems.
I find this series exciting as well a practical.
The other sermons in the series can be found here.
There is also a study guide I wrote for this sermon.
The purpose of guide to discern principles that are helpful to keep us from falling under the power of various temptation. Best done in a group setting, the idea is to look at each category, then write down some various principles to help us when we are tempted in this area. Another idea is to hold a debriefing sessions at the end of the study to discuss any conclusions valid for the topic of temptation in general.
Here it is:
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