How to Overcome Sin and Temptation - Couverture souple

Owen, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1494885182 ISBN 13 : 9781494885182

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

Are you tired of struggling with the same sins again and again?
John Owen, one of the most powerful theological minds in history, offers timeless guidance on how to truly overcome sin and temptation—not through willpower alone, but through the transforming power of the Holy Spirit. How to Overcome Sin and Temptation distills Owen’s deep biblical wisdom into clear, practical advice for real spiritual victory.

Originally written in the 17th century but deeply relevant today, this classic work unpacks the internal battle every Christian faces, and provides real help for cultivating holiness, resisting temptation, and walking in the freedom Christ has secured. You'll learn:

• Why knowing your own heart is essential for spiritual growth

• How Satan uses temptation subtly and systematically

• What "mortifying the flesh" really means—and how to do it

• How grace empowers—not replaces—personal effort

• The role of Scripture, prayer, and the Spirit in overcoming sin

Perfect for serious believers who long for a deeper walk with God, this book is more than a theological treatise—it’s a roadmap for transformation.

Whether you’ve read Owen before or are discovering him for the first time, this edition makes his profound insights accessible without watering them down. It will challenge, convict, and encourage anyone ready to fight the good fight of faith.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John Owen (1616–1683) was an English Nonconformist church leader, theologian, and academic administrator at the University of Oxford. On 29 April he preached before the Long Parliament. In this sermon, and in his Country Essay for the Practice of Church Government, which he appended to it, his tendency to break away from Presbyterianism to the Independent or Congregational system is seen. Like John Milton, he saw little to choose between "new presbyter" and "old priest." He became pastor at Coggeshall in Essex, with a large influx of Flemish tradesmen. In March 1651, Cromwell, as Chancellor of Oxford University, gave him the deanery of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, and made him Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University in September 1652; in both offices he succeeded the Presbyterian, Edward Reynolds. During his eight years of official Oxford life Owen showed himself a firm disciplinarian, thorough in his methods, though, as John Locke testifies, the Aristotelian traditions in education underwent no change. With Philip Nye he unmasked the popular astrologer, William Lilly, and in spite of his share in condemning two Quakeresses to be whipped for disturbing the peace, his rule was not intolerant. Anglican services were conducted here and there, and at Christ Church itself the Anglican chaplain remained in the college. While little encouragement was given to a spirit of free inquiry, Puritanism at Oxford was not simply an attempt to force education and culture into "the leaden moulds of Calvinistic theology." Owen, unlike many of his contemporaries, was more interested in the New Testament than in the Old. During his Oxford years he wrote Justitia Divina, an exposition of the dogma that God cannot forgive sin without an atonement; Communion with God, Doctrine of the Saints' Perseverance, his final attack on Arminianism; Vindiciae Evangelicae, a treatise written by order of the Council of State against Socinianism as expounded by John Biddle; On the Mortification of Sin in Believers, an introspective and analytic work; Schism, one of the most readable of all his writings; Of Temptation, an attempt to recall Puritanism to its cardinal spiritual attitude from the jarring anarchy of sectarianism and the pharisaism which had followed on popularity and threatened to destroy the early simplicity.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1494885182
• ISBN 13: 9781494885182
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 92
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