PDF Title: Handling Life’s Temptations
Author: Ron Christian
This book is part of a series.
- Book 1: Encountering the Living God
- Book 2: Practicing the Means of Grace
- Book 3: Pursuing a Holy Lifestyle
- Book 4: This Book
- Book 5: Practicing the Presence of God
- Book 6: Overcoming Obstacles to Christian Growth
- Book 7: Refocusing on Life's Priorities
- Book 8: Appropriating the Power of Prayer and Faith
- Book 9: Managing Life's Various Stewardships
- Book 10: Rescuing the Lost Ones
- Book 11: Reaching Out in Holy Love
- Book 12: Surviving Life's Hard Trials
- Book 13: Maintaining the Life of Faith
Summary#
Handling Life’s Temptations is a Christian devotional work by Ron Christian focused on recognizing, resisting, and overcoming temptation through faith, Scripture, prayer, humility, and dependence on Christ. The book maintains that temptation is not itself sin, but that believers must identify its source, understand the nature of sin, and use the spiritual weapons God provides. Ron Christian presents temptation as a recurring battle involving outward actions, inward attitudes, and the hidden motives of the heart. The devotional readings address common spiritual struggles such as fear, worry, destructive anger, resentment, doubt, despair, lust, jealousy, judgmentalism, envy, negativity, pride, false guilt, and an overly sensitive conscience. Throughout the book, Ron Christian contends that victory comes not through self-reliance or willpower alone, but through surrender to Christ, trust in God’s promises, obedience to the Word of God, and the transforming work of the Holy Spirit. Its central message is that Christians can grow stronger through life’s tests when they meet temptation with humility, spiritual vigilance, forgiveness, confidence in God, and a Christ-centered mind.