Posts tagged “Pride”
Blink first
If you’ve lived long enough and squabbled often enough, you know by now that pride starts every conflict but never ends it. By nature,…
If things are going well
If things are going well in this season of your spiritual life, I want to praise God with you. And I want to quote…
Your audience of one
The audience gathers eagerly. The eighth-grade band students are dressed in their best backstage, nervously waiting for each of their names to be called…
Reassurance
“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, nor height…
Which is better?
Which is better? Coke or Pepsi? LeBron or Jordan? Dairy Queen or Culvers? Okay, that last one is a trick question because all ice…
My truth? Maybe not …
I have a love/hate relationship with my heart. I love it because, by God’s grace, it has a lot of Scripture stored up in…
How low can you go?
It must be nice to be an important person. People praise you. Servants serve you. All in all, life is good when you are…
Take a census
King David got in trouble when he took a census of his people. The census itself was not wrong, but David’s motivations were. The…
Hoping for an apocalypse
It’s early January, and the official rules for bloggers state that I must write about resolutions. (That’s 100% accurate, but I’d prefer that you…
What’s that smell?!
Taste, touch, hearing, sight, and smell. Those are the five senses. Each is important in some way. The sense of smell has been called…
More than simple
The Bible says, “The complacency of fools will destroy them” (Proverbs 1:32). Complacency means being entirely satisfied with where I am, even if it…
Acknowledge your God
“The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’ They are corrupt, and their ways are vile; there is no one who does…