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1. Just Because We Can't See It

John 20:19-23

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Carla Thompson Powell

A junior high school teacher was telling her class about evolution and how the way everything in the world was formed proved that God doesn't exist. She said, "Look out the window. You can't see God, can you?" The kids shook their heads. "Look around you in this room. You can't see God, can you?" The kids shook their heads. "Then our logical conclusion is that God doesn't exist, does He?" sh...

2. Screwtape and Wormwood

Mark 8:27-38

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Carla Thompson Powell

C.S. Lewis, great author and interpreter of the Christian faith, wrote a fictional series of correspondence between two devils entitled The Screwtape Letters. Screwtape is an older, more experienced devil who writes to the younger, naive Wormwood. Wormwood's job is to thwart the faith of a new Christian, to turn a particular Christian believer away from his faith in God. To accomplish his mission,...

3. The Devil Doesn't Tempt, He Suggests

Luke 4:1-13

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Carla Thompson Powell

Temptations are almost always based on our own legitimate wants and needs. Desire for food, desire for human intimacy, or desire for approval from others is not from the devil. These are normal, perhaps even innocent, desires, but they do at times make us more vulnerable to temptation. C. S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters (1943) are fictional letters written from one devil to another. In one letter...

4. The Rabbi and the White Horse

Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

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Carla Thompson Powell

A young man once came to a great rabbi and asked him to make the younger man a rabbi. It was wintertime then. The rabbi stood at the window looking out upon the yard, while the rabbinical candidate was droning into his ears a glowing account of his piety and learning. The young man said, "You see, Rabbi, I always go dressed in spotless white like the sages of old. I never drink any alcoholic beve...

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1. Just Because We Can't See It

John 20:19-23

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Carla Thompson Powell

2. Screwtape and Wormwood

Mark 8:27-38

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Carla Thompson Powell

3. The Devil Doesn't Tempt, He Suggests

Luke 4:1-13

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Carla Thompson Powell

4. The Rabbi and the White Horse

Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

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Carla Thompson Powell

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