Tag Archives: Pride
The Bible calls us to be Holy like He is Holy. A worthy goal to be sure, but sadly this endeavor often gets confused with ritual and law and we end up taking pride in our moral cardiovascular fitness rather than humbly offering a broken and contrite heart.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart,…..
I am a bit tired of all the name-calling and ad hominem attacks that I hear coming from both sides of the political aisle. My conclusion, however, isn’t that democracy is broken but rather that the people trying to implement it are fallen. Political infighting doesn’t make government bad; it just shows that the justice league has become a den of robbers.
We all live in glass houses so let’s be very…..
History focuses on key people whose thoughts and actions have influenced the trajectory of the civilized world. We may love or hate these unique characters but either way they always seem to find their way onto a final exam. While prominent men and women build earthly empires, a great cloud of nameless, faceless Christian construction workers are framing God’s Kingdom board-by-board by…..
Many people object to Christianity because they believe it has too many rules. They cannot in good conscience shackle their freedom to the capricious rules of a judgmental deity. We’ve all heard this argument before, but let’s take a closer look; what exactly are the rules they find so oppressive? I suspect that most people think that don’t murder, don’t…..
