Break Free from Bad Habits to Find True Change (Part 1 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
People may wonder why God allows temptation in the first place, but He often uses our desires and bad habits to reveal His power and grace in our lives, and form our character to be more like Jesus Christ. Dr. Erwin Lutzer describes how renewing our mind and restraining our emotions, and keeping current accounts with God will equip us to fight temptation and sin.
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| 0:00.0 | Your church comes to you each week to fill their cup. But when the crowd leaves, who's filling yours? |
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| 0:12.1 | Pastor to Pastor with Dave Stone. I'm so excited to help you navigate the unique challenges |
| 0:17.7 | that pastors face in their ministry journey, both personally and professionally. |
| 0:22.8 | So, I invite you to listen and subscribe to pastor to pastor wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.6 | Well, it ain't gossip if it's true. |
| 0:33.3 | Anger has been a problem for me. |
| 0:35.3 | I am too easily triggered. |
| 0:37.0 | I don't appreciate the term shopaholic, but I do feel better when I buy stuff. |
| 0:44.8 | Well, what do you think? When does a routine behavior or habit become harmful? |
| 0:50.4 | And when does it turn into something worse like sin? |
| 0:54.2 | Today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, |
| 0:56.6 | we'll examine the hows and wise of temptation and bad habits |
| 1:00.6 | and what God will do to help you overcome them. |
| 1:04.5 | I'm John Fuller, and thanks for joining us today. |
| 1:07.0 | John, this is a crazy analogy, |
| 1:08.9 | but have you been present where somebody is so unaware, self- unaware? |
| 1:15.1 | To me, it's like at an airport. |
| 1:16.6 | People get off the plane and then they stand right where everybody walks to look at where |
| 1:21.4 | they're going. |
| 1:22.2 | Yes. |
| 1:22.5 | And it makes everybody else kind of move around them. |
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