Thursdays with John Owen

On Thursdays I meet for an hour for prayer, accountability, laughter, etc with 3 other men. We are reading together through a book by John Owen called, Of The Mortification of Sin in Believers... this book was written about 300 years ago and speaks of things we all wrestled with this morning. It is basically one long meditation on Romans 8:13:

For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

Owen has thrown cold water on us... reminding of us that we have an enemy and the sooner we realize it the better. He asks, "Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work to fight sin? Are you seeking to be always at it while you live? To cease not a day from this work? Be killing sin or it will be killing you." (You can get the book, under cover with 2 others for a cheap rate here: )