Pride
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The Absurdity of Looking Down on Others
To be self-righteous…is to be a fool. Think about the sad story of Abram, Sarai, and Hagar in Genesis 16. Sarai is unable to conceive a child with Abram; and so she, in a move we can’t imagine a wife making in our culture, offers him her maidservant Hagar as a surrogate. Now mind you, Continue reading
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What To Remember When You Walk Through Suffering
There are people who say that God never wants His children to suffer, that He only wants “blessing” for us and that suffering is never His instrument for this blessing. This, however, is a lie and if you believe it, you will spend much of your life in despair. You see, suffering is not the opposite Continue reading
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We Need the Cross Everyday
Here is one of my heroes, D. Martyn Lloyd Jones, writing wisely in his book, aptly titled The Cross, about one of the great verses in Scripture… “But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I Continue reading
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What if the Apostle Paul Had Gotten Proud?
It would have been bad, that’s what. Proud people are pretty unusable by God, and so Paul would have been put on the shelf. And maybe we would have missed half of the New Testament, you know the part that Paul wrote (Just imagine the Bible without Romans). And maybe the gospel wouldn’t have gone Continue reading
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When You Think You’re Something Great
I have a friend who recently needed to talk to a person in charge of a particular organization. What he related about his conversation was interesting. He had the sense that she couldn’t be bothered in dealing with him. She was of the impression that she was someone of great importance who really shouldn’t have to deal with a Continue reading
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The Turning Point In My Life, Conclusion
(This is part 3.) What had I done wrong? What was my problem? Would I ever be able to go into ministry? And then, in a flash, the Spirit of God led me to 2 Corinthians 3:5… “Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is Continue reading
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Knowledge…or Love?
Around the Knowlton house, we’ve had a few air mattresses through the years, but I don’t think we’ve bought one lately. As far as I can tell, they aren’t worth whatever money you spend on them. Just one nick, one tiny little hole, and you’re sleeping on the cold, hard ground. I know you can patch it, Continue reading
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How Death Helps Us
As I approached 50 (and then hit it) this past summer, I more and more began to think about how many years I have left. I’m not trying to be morbid, but I think this is pretty natural. However, it is different than the way I used to think. As a young child, I vaguely Continue reading
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Two Ways to Live
There are two kinds of people in the world. One kind of person is like Herod the Tetrarch. And the other is like this man we come to know and love in the gospels and Acts – Peter the Apostle. What is the difference? Well, in short, one is independent, and the other is dependent. Continue reading
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8 Ways the Pharisees Blew It (With Commentary)
Matthew 23 is Jesus’ scathing indictment of the Scribes and Pharisees. What exactly was He so upset with them about? 1. They preached, but did not practice. (vs. 3) As a regular preacher of God’s word, I can say with authority that this is a great temptation, and that in small ways or large, preacher or no Continue reading
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