Viruses can do nasty things to your computer or your body. They can even turn deadly. According to Steve Fuller in this week's featured sermon, there's a deceptive, insidious virus that attacks our relationship with Christ—pride. From the life of King Hezekiah (Isaiah 38-39), Fuller shows how even spiritually mature people can quickly succumb to the disease of pride. But Fuller also points us to the good news: Christ can detect and quarantine this nasty spiritual virus.

This week we also feature:

• Editor's Choice Illustration: Contemporary Thinkers Attempt to Define Marriage
• Article: How I Prepare a Sermon, by Lee Eclov
• Video Illustration: Scars

Together in Christ,

Matt Woodley
Managing Editor, PreachingToday.com
Mwoodley@christianitytoday.com

P.S. If you need some ideas for your sermon series for this fall, check out our collection of sermon series transcripts. As you browse through these transcript series, may the Lord inspire you with ideas that fit you and your church for this season of your life together.

Matt Woodley is the pastor of compassion ministries at Church of the Resurrection in Wheaton, Illinois.