How to Identify Your Idols

From the Desiring God blog:

(Author: Tyler Kenney)

This past Sunday, Kenny Stokes preached his second message on 1 John 5:20-21, which ends, "Little children, keep yourselves from idols." (See his first sermon on this passage.)

Near the end he laid out 13 questions, adapted from an old Puritan sermon, to help us identify the idols of our hearts:

1. What do you most highly value?
2. What do you think about by default?
3. What is your highest goal?
4. To what or whom are you most committed?
5. Who or what do you love the most?
6. Who or what do you trust or depend upon the most?
7. Who or what do you fear the most?
8. Who or what do you hope in and hope for most?
9. Who or what do you desire the most? Or, what desire makes you most angry or makes you despair when it is not satisfied?
10. Who or what do you most delight in or hold as your greatest joy and treasure?
11. Who or what captures your greatest zeal?
12. To whom or for what are you most thankful?
13. For whom or what great purpose do you work?

Read or listen to the rest of his sermon.