Tricks of the Temptor on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors,

where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face.

I'm thrilled to have with me today, Dr. Keith Evans.

He's a professor of Christian counseling at RTS Charlotte. He's also been in academia for nine years,

teaching at a seminary prior to his time at RTS. He was a pastor for seven years in Lafayette, Indiana,

which is near Purdue University. He's married to Melissa, and they

have four girls. And Keith, great to have you on the podcast today. Looking forward to our time

together. Thank you so much. Looking forward to it as well, Dale. Now, Tricks of the Temptor. Here

coming up soon, you're going to be presenting as a plenary speaker at our ACBC annual conference, ancient past

soul care in past places, and this is going to be a topic that you're presenting on. So I don't

want you give away everything, but I do want to talk to you about it because this is such an

interesting topic, tricks of the tempter. And the Puritans wrote extensively about this idea of temptation.

Give us some ideas as to why the Puritans considered this topic and wrote so extensively on it.

Yeah, absolutely. We tend to think in contemporary context that temptation is just, should I click on that link or should I lay hold of

that substance or alcohol or whatever the case may be, right? Whatever the immediate temptation

is. But Puritans wanted us to understand that temptation is so much broader than that,

how we think, what we love, our conscience,

and what our conscience is comfortable with or not comfortable with. It's a much broader topic.

And so you'll read these like tombs even on temptation unpacking. It's like a directory of temptation

and all these different headings and how to resist those particular types of temptation.

And that might sound a bit strange to our modern sensibilities.

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