Align Your Actions with Your Beliefs

Whitney Hopler

You knew it was wrong, yet you did it anyway. Why? Sometimes we're all attracted to sin, despite our beliefs. Every day, a spiritual battle rages inside us, and we need to learn how to fight so we can win the moral victories. When your actions align with your beliefs, you can enjoy a more vibrant faith.

Here are some ways you can strengthen your moral character:

Adapted from The War Within You: Overcoming the Obstacles to Godly Character, copyright 2001 by Doug McIntosh. Published by Moody Press, Chicago, Ill., www.moody.edu, 1-800-678-6928.

Doug McIntosh is the senior pastor at Stone Mountain Community Church near Atlanta. He has taught courses at Carver Bible Institute and College and at Columbia Bible College and Seminary. The author of three other books, Doug has three adult children with his wife Cheryl.

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