We warn our children and grandchildren about peer pressure. We want them to say no to the vices of the world: drinking, drugs, and other destructive behaviors. But as we move from childhood to adulthood, we find the peer pressure changes. Daniel 3:2 notes 'the satraps, the administrators, the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces' were there. I'm sure more than one of them thought they needed to keep their job with all of its benefits. Not much has changed in two-and-a-half millennia.
— O. S. Hawkins (b. 1947), Pastor, Autor und Vorstandsvorsitzender
Related Bible passage: DAN.3.2
Topics: Temptation & Struggle, Freedom & Truth
Occasions: For Reflection
O. S. Hawkins
O. S. Hawkins (* 1947) ist ein US-amerikanischer baptistischer Pastor, Buchautor und langjähriger Leiter des Finanzdienstleisters GuideStone der Southern Baptist Convention. Bekanntheit erlangte er vor allem durch seine millionenfach verkaufte „Code“-Andachtsreihe sowie seinen Einsatz für die Unterstützung bedürftiger Geistlicher im Ruhestand. Heutigen Bibellesern bietet er leicht verständliche, alltagspraktische Impulse, die eine konservativ-evangelikale Auslegung mit Ratschlägen für die persönliche Lebens- und Leiterschaftsführung verbinden.
All quotes by O. S. Hawkins (14)
The devil is a better theologian than any of us, and he is still a devil.
A.W. Tozer
Discipline is choosing what you want most over what you want now.
Craig Groeschel
Martin Luther
Fyodor Dostoevsky
And Satan trembles when he sees, the weakest saint upon his knees.
William Cowper
Our old man is crucified, but he is long at dying.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Dante Alighieri
Gilbert Keith Chesterton