Remix: Student Devotionals

Sin and Temptation: Week 5, Day 2

Day 2: Purity Matters It's prom night for Brian and Mandy. This coming Friday is their one-year "anniversary." Brian, a senior and 1-year older, met Mandy at a friend's birthday party one night, and they've been dating ever since. They talk on the ph...

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Sin and Temptation: Week 5, Day 3

Day 3: Back Off! Since you are a follower of Christ, you want to be pure in your dating relationships. You want to honor God with your body. This is very difficult to do when the hormones are raging and you feel such strong emotions. It is easy to compromise your values a...

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Sin and Temptation: Week 4, Day 1

Day 1: Your I.D., Please Some of the funniest ads on T.V. are ads selling beer. In the commercials, the party isn’t a party until the beer shows up. But, of course, it’s not just any beer either; it has to be the “right” beer. According to ...

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Sin and Tempation: Week 4, Day 2

Day 2: Pass Me Another Beer. A minimum of 8 million teenagers drinks alcohol every week. Nearly 500,000 teenagers (almost as large as the entire population of Albuquerque) go on a weekly binge. (They have at least five drinks in a row.) Middle School and High School Stude...

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Sin and Tempation: Week 4, Day 3

Day 3: Stuck Between a Rock and A Hard Place Aron Ralston was out on a hike in Southern Utah in 2003 for a much-needed day of vacation. He was hiking through a slot canyon, which is a very narrow canyon. He was moving over a part of the canyon at a point where there would...

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Sin and Temptation: Week 3, Day 3

Day 3: Public Enemy #1 Satan got together with his chief demon lieutenants to figure out a game plan to stop mankind from asking Jesus into their lives. It seems that he was losing ground and getting nervous. I wonder how long it has been since Satan felt like he has lost...

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Sin and Temptation: Week 3, Day 1

Day 1: Inside Job David R. Munselle, 72, was an armored car courier picking up a deposit at a large mall in Texas. As he was leaving the mall through a freight tunnel as he had done many times before, Munselle was struck over the head with a blunt object three times. The ...

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Sin and Temptation: Week 3, Day 2

Day 2: Under the Knife A woman in Bucharest, Romania, weighed 176 pounds with a benign tumor attached to most of her back and continued halfway down her thighs. Lucica Bunghez, 46, suffered from neurofibromatosis, or NF, a progressive disorder of the nervous system that c...

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Sin and Temptation: Week 2, Day 1

Day 1: Media and You By 5th grade, you will have spent more hours watching TV than sitting in a classroom from kindergarten through college. By the time you graduate, you will have watched over 18,000 hours of TV. By age 18, you will have watched over 850,000 commercials,...

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Sin and Temptation: Week 2, Day 2

Day 2: It’s Only Rock and Roll, and I Like It! Last week we looked at TV and movies, so today let’s talk about music. When I was a kid, some evangelist guy came to my church and went off about the music kids listened to. He told us that at the end of the week,...

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