Pride is concerned with WHO is right. Humility is concerned with WHAT is right. –Ezra T. Benson ————— Pride is a spiritual cancer; it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense. ————————– Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less. –C. S. Lewis ————— Being […]
Yes, I know one doesn’t even want to be cured of one’s pride because it gives pleasure. But the pleasure of pride is like the pleasure of scratching. If there is an itch, one does want to scratch: but it is much nicer to have neither the itch nor the scratch. As long as we
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Two senior citizens were talking about the wisdom and humility that come with age. One said, “When I was young, I was very proud. My pride caused me to worry all the time about what other people thought about me. When I got older I said to myself, ‘I don’t care what they
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“You Are What You Sweep: Why being made of dust is both terrifying and encouraging” By Andrew Wilson, posted April 20, 2020 at: http://www.christianitytoday.org . Wilson is teaching pastor at King’s Church London and author of Spirit and Sacrament (Zondervan). ———————————————— Dust goes unnoticed, for the most part. It surrounds us, but unless
Above: Henri Nouwen (1932-1996) Catholic priest, Harvard professor, Best-selling author, Direct-caregiver ———————- From “Low Pay, Long Hours, No Applause” by Phililp Yancey, Christianity Today magazine, November 18, 1988, page 80. —————————- Henri Nouwen: Adam is a 25-year-old man who cannot speak, cannot dress or undress himself, cannot walk alone, and cannot eat without
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“We All Need Help” by John Piper Hebrews 4:16 — Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Every one of us needs help. We are not God. We have needs. We have weaknesses. We
By Rick Warren at: http://www.pastorrick.org, December 15, 2017. God allows a crisis to get our attention, and then he uses the crisis to develop our character. One thing that signals we’re changing for the better is when we confess that we’re the problem. We stop blaming other people and admit, “I am the
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Above: A dog waiting for a crumb off of the table. ************************** (…continued) Maybe Jesus is saying “Remember your place,” and maybe he is saying that to you and me. That might sound stern and ungracious, but the catechism, which we teach to our children, says as much. For example, in Luther’s explanation
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Above image: The Canaanite Woman Asks Christ for a Cure, 1650, Pietro del Po ———————— Matthew 15:21-28 — Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon. A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is demon-possessed and suffering terribly.” Jesus
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Painting above: Christ Washing Peter’s Feet Ford Maddox Brown, English Painter (1821-1893) ————————- (…continued) Yet Jesus, respected rabbi and master and Lord, grabbed a towel, got down on his knees, and washed the feet of his disciples– disciples who, on occasion, could get into big arguments about which one
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