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Look and Live: Behold the Soul-Thrilling, Sin-Destroying Glory of Christ is unavailable, but you can change that!

Only One Addiction Can Set You Free Matt Papa was a "professional Christian" in full-time ministry, ready and determined to change the world. All the while he was depressed, addicted to the approval of others, and enslaved to sin. But then everything changed. He encountered the glory of God. All of us live in the tension between where we are and where we ought to be. We try our best to...

always do what we most desire to do.5 You might say, “No way, that’s not true. I don’t enjoy waking up and going to school or work every morning.” Oh, but you do. You enjoy making money and living comfortably more than you enjoy a little extra sleep. And so you go off to work. You always do what you most desire to do. We are desire-driven creatures, and will always desire, enjoy, and act upon our highest perceived good. Blaise Pascal said it this way: “We forsake pleasures only for others which are greater.”6