Christian Growth on Christian Living Ministries Books

Handling Life's Temptations

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Overcoming Obstacles to Christian Growth

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Overcoming Obstacles to Christian Growth is a devotional booklet in the Growing a Godly Life series that focuses on attitudes, habits, and emotional patterns that hinder spiritual maturity. Ron Christian maintains that while Christ receives and transforms sinners by grace, believers must still confront lingering obstacles such as prejudice, resentment, bitterness, unforgiveness, discouragement, worry, misplaced confidence, spiritual inadequacy, and dependence on feelings rather than faith. The booklet proposes that Christian growth requires both honest self-examination and active dependence on God’s grace, Word, Spirit, and forgiveness. Through biblical reflections, personal illustrations, prayers, affirmations, and discussion questions, Ron Christian calls readers to replace harmful attitudes with humility, love, reconciliation, courage, contentment, and steady faith. Its central message is that obstacles to Christian growth are not overcome by self-effort alone, but through repentance, renewed thinking, obedience, forgiveness, and daily trust in Christ’s transforming power.

Practicing the Means of Grace

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Practicing the Means of Grace is Book 2 in the Growing a Godly Life devotional series by Ron Christian. The booklet maintains that becoming a Christian may happen through sincere faith and prayer, but growing into a mature believer requires continued participation in the “means of grace” God provides. Ron Christian presents the local church, corporate fellowship, biblical teaching, Scripture, prayer, communion, baptism, worship, hymns, and personal spiritual disciplines as vital channels through which believers are strengthened and shaped. The work contends that Christians are not meant to live isolated spiritual lives, but to grow in the family of God through regular worship, fellowship, reverence, shared devotion, and service. It also emphasizes the Bible as God’s blueprint for life and calls believers to hunger for Scripture, obey it carefully, and allow it to saturate the heart and mind. Through devotional reflections, prayers, affirmations, and discussion questions, the booklet proposes a practical path for deepening communion with God and maturing in the Christian faith.