Tag Archives: Pride
Can’t I at Least Get Partial Credit?
I think the answer is simpler, and yet deeper and more profound, than most realize. This too comes back to why you and I were created, and the worldview-framing battle between the one true King and the false gods–the images, men and women–who direct worship toward themselves instead of toward God. Continue reading
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Dead Men Don’t Pray
“So when we find a man praying, we shout—he breathes; he is not dead, he is alive; for while a man prays he is not dead in trespasses and sins, but is brought to life, is quickened by the power … Continue reading
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The Quest for Glory
The quest for glory is God-given, it just needs to be directed correctly. Continue reading
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Arsenic and Old Grace
“Hearts die on the medicine of pride.” You’ve been hurt in a battle of relational conflict. Nothing psychotic or violent or anything, but something genuinely awful has happened with another, and now you’re wounded. You turn to friends, to pastors, … Continue reading
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When I Run, I Feel His Pleasure
“But the LORD was pleased to crush Him.” (Isaiah 53:10) Oh, that when we are crushed we would feel his pleasure! God is wiser and better than we can imagine. Formerly worshipers of self, doomed to destruction, we find that … Continue reading
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Careful What You Wish For
“But the serpent said to the woman, ‘You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.’” (Genesis 3:4-5) In an … Continue reading
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Worthy to Be Humbled
And as he is humbled, let him rejoice that he is counted worthy to be humbled. Continue reading
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A Word From My Older Brother
Like Oswald Chambers (posted earlier), this honest and humble word from Tullian Tchividjian has been an immense encouragement to me. Hearing this for the first time was like having my older brother sit down and give eyewitness to the power … Continue reading
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Satan Wants the Church
As we round out into the liturgical year’s “Ordinary Time”, after all the buzz of Christmas, and Lent, and Easter, frustrations with the Church can begin to mount. That annoying couple in the front row, the theological (dead-)hobby-horse of your … Continue reading
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Review of Tim Keller’s “The Prodigal God”
Nutshell: Every sinner is blind, especially those without a good mirror. prod·i·gal (adj.) 1. wastefully or recklessly extravagant; 2. giving or yielding profusely; lavish. “Prodigal God”–put that in your theological pipe and smoke it! Keller hits a couple key points of … Continue reading
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