Tag: humility
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On Goats and Sheep
Have you ever tried to help an animal, but because it didn’t understand, was hurt and afraid, it wouldn’t let you? Animals often don’t understand when we’re trying to do what’s best for them. And because they don’t understand, they fight.
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What Did You Expect?
We love conquering heroes, and we may wish we could be like them. But most of us know deep down we cannot be like them, no matter how hard we try.
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When Burdens Turn Into Blessings
I once overheard a conversation that has stuck with me for close to 30 years. Two women were talking about God, and one of them said something like this: I don’t like God. He plays favorites.
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Staying Teachable
All of us, perhaps teachers especially, need to remain teachable. Even if I am a teacher, more than that I am a student, a disciple of Jesus.
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He Said, She Said
And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So then, they are no…
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Before the Decree is Issued
Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, O undesirable nation, before the decree is issued, or the day passes like chaff, before the Lord’s fierce anger comes upon you, before the day of the Lord’s anger comes upon you! Seek the Lord, all you meek of the earth, who have upheld His justice. Seek righteousness, seek…