The Choice

Our text today comes from Luke 5:4-11.  Jesus is teaching by the lake Gennesaret (Which was also known as the Sea of Galilee or the Sea of Tiberias).  There are so many people that they are crowding Jesus.  So Jesus sees some fishermen who are washing their nets.  He steps into one of the boats and tells the owner, Simon (soon to be Peter), to push out a little way from the shore.  Simon does and Jesus was able to teach without being crowded.  Then we come to our text.  Let's read: 

   ⁴Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.

   ⁵And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net.

The Demon's Letter

I found this article and thought it gave insight into how the Devil might try and trip up Christian leaders.

Following in the footsteps of The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis, Jared Wilson writes from the perspective of a senior demon to his apprentice on how to oppose and confound Christians. This imaginative piece offers powerful insight into the subtle ways leaders might be led astray.