Breaking Free From Sin
Psalm 32:1-5 · Preached September 6, 2026
Unconfessed sin weighs on a person the way expired food weighs down a house, it has to go.
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Browse 5 real sermons on temptation from 4 churches across the MinistryHelper network, each turned into a full set of devotionals, discussion guides, and study content.
Surrendering to God's Power
Romans 7:18-25 · Preached August 30, 2026
Paul's confession that he cannot do the good he wants to do mirrors the struggle every person faces with sin and addiction.
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Anger and What Lies Beneath
James 1:19-20 · Preached June 7, 2026
Unresolved anger quietly shapes our relationships, our health, and our souls in ways we rarely stop to examine.
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Faithful in a Culture of Confusion
Daniel 1:8-21 · Preached August 23, 2026
Daniel and his companions show what it looks like to remain faithful to God while living inside a culture that pressures believers to conform.
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Counting On What Only God Can Give
2 Samuel 24:1-17 · Preached August 16, 2026
David's census reveals how easily we place our hope in the gifts God gives rather than in God himself.
See what this sermon became →5 five-day devotionals from sermons on temptation
Each one was written from a different sermon on temptation, in that pastor's own voice. Pick a sermon and read all five days free.
Breaking Free From Sin
“David didn't just feel guilty in a vague, background kind of way. He felt it in his body. There was groaning. There was exhaustion. There was this constant, low-grade heaviness that followed him everywhere, because he had chosen silence over honesty.”
Read all 5 days of the devotionalAnger and What Lies Beneath
“Here's something that might surprise you: psychologists often call anger the "second emotion." Something else comes first, loneliness, disappointment, fear, feeling unseen or unvalued, and when we don't know what to do with that first, painful feeling, we leap to anger.”
Read all 5 days of the devotionalFaithful in a Culture of Confusion
“Daniel didn't land in Babylon by choice. He was taken captive, uprooted from everything familiar and dropped into a culture that expected him to blend in. The pressure to conform was real, immediate, and wrapped in the king's finest food.”
Read all 5 days of the devotional5 small group discussion guides from sermons on temptation
Ready-to-lead discussion questions, each set drawn from one sermon on temptation. Open one and take it to your group this week.
Surrendering to God's Power
“Paul writes in Romans 7 that he keeps doing the very things he doesn't want to do. What does it tell us that even the Apostle Paul struggled this deeply? How does that change the way you read this passage?”
Open the discussion guideAnger and What Lies Beneath
“Pastor Mike introduced the idea that anger is often the "second emotion", meaning something else (hurt, fear, loneliness, disappointment) comes first, and we jump to anger because it feels easier or more powerful.”
Open the discussion guideFaithful in a Culture of Confusion
“niel and his three friends chose faithfulness over conformity when they were taken captive in Babylon. Their story isn't just about survival, it's a picture of how radical obedience to God can actually impact an entire culture. T”
Open the discussion guideCounting On What Only God Can Give
“When David finally acknowledged his sin, he said something powerful: "Let us fall into the hand of the Lord, for his mercy is great." What does it take, emotionally, spiritually, to get to a place where you can say something like that?”
Open the discussion guide5 deep study guides from sermons on temptation
For groups that want to go further. Each guide works through one sermon on temptation passage by passage.
Breaking Free From Sin
“Freedom from sin isn't found by managing it better or hiding it more carefully, it's found by bringing it fully into the open before God and trusted community, where his grace covers what we cannot carry.”
Open the deep study guideFaithful in a Culture of Confusion
“Daniel's resolve was set before the pressure arrived. What decision do you need to make now, before the next moment of pressure, so that you don't have to figure it out in the moment?”
Open the deep study guide5 sermon quizzes from sermons on temptation
Short quizzes that check whether a sermon on temptation landed. Each one was built from that sermon's actual content.
Breaking Free From Sin
“According to Psalm 32, what physical experience did David describe when he kept his sin hidden?”
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“What is 'the lie of one last time' as the pastor describes it?”
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“According to the Apostle Paul in Ephesians 4, what does unresolved anger give to the devil?”
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“According to Elliot, what is the key difference in outcome between Daniel chapter 1 (the feast) and Daniel chapter 3 (the furnace), even though the men ran the same play?”
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“According to Ryan, what was the core reason David's census was sinful, even though God commanded censuses elsewhere in Scripture?”
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