Tag: pride

Repent more

I am struck by how infrequently the Church confesses its sins. I am talking to myself here, too. It is easy to confess pride, selfishness, laziness, because these are the kind of sins that make...

/ March 19, 2015

Happy birthday to you… and, hopefully, not many more

I know a woman who is alive to see her great-great-great-great-great grandson. She’s 150 years old, which means she was born during the American Civil War. She had cancer in her early hundreds, but the...

/ August 29, 2013

Christian superstars, let’s not hurt the Church

There’s a guy at your church who is on the praise team, is an usher, teaches the Alpha course, volunteers in the kids’ Sunday school and hosts a Bible study at his house. There’s a...

/ August 12, 2013