Posted in humility, Jesus, pride, tagged humility, Jesus, pride on August 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
the third application that you can add to your day
in trying to cultivate humility and destroy pride,
is to
i learned the other day that there is a difference between transparency and vulnerability.
do you see the difference there?
Posted in baptism, Jesus, twenty two word tuesday, tagged baptism, doctrine, gospel, Jesus, secondary issues, twenty two word tuesday on August 24, 2010 | 4 Comments »
another guy states faith in the gospel & says,
virgin birth? come on…that’s not how babies happen, bro.
would you baptize him?
Posted in Uncategorized on August 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Last Tuesday at lunch time a group at Casa Ford gathered for a lesson on “Healing and Forgiveness” from a Lucado study based on The Gospel of Mark. We read about how Jesus forgave the sins of a man who was lowered through the roof of a home by his friends. After that, Jesus told this paralytic to stand up, take his mat, and go home. In obedience to these words of Jesus, the man’s body was able to do something impossible before this encounter.
A broken and tired salesman at the table with bloodshot, teary eyes told the group about his son who was born by emergency c-section a couple weeks ago. The baby came into the world weighing about four pounds, and his lungs were flat. The doctors put him on a respirator and did all they could to support his life.
The infant’s condition improved and then declined, which aggravated the emotional rollercoaster. At our gathering, the salesman told us that they had decided to keep their son on life support for two more days. If he could not survive, he would be the fifth child that this young man and his wife had lost.
In faith, we asked Jesus to heal this child.
At the same time, the respirator in the hospital began to go haywire. It was an unexplainable malfunction that led the doctors to bring in another respirator for the child. That machine too went haywire. So they had to remove the child from the machine.
The boy began to breathe. Jesus chose to heal this child in a miraculous way. It was an undeserved gift of grace, and God wanted to make sure nobody would chalk it up to some act of man. Jesus heals today as He always has. Put your faith in Him, and ask for unexplainable mysteries to amaze us into worship, faith, and greater obedience.
Posted in humility, Jesus, pride, tagged humility, Jesus, pride on August 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
a second daily practice you can take hold of
in your battle against pride and for humility is to
do you know the reason that God made speech?
He tells us.
ephesians 4:29
Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
Posted in humility, Jesus, pride, tagged humility, Jesus, pride on August 21, 2010 | 4 Comments »
the final section of instruction
can be applied over the course of your life,
hopefully,
eventually,
daily.
the first daily practice that you can implement into your life in this section
on your journey of minimizing pride and maximizing humility is to
not faults…evidences of God’s grace.
we’re good at scouring for fault,
and this is our natural bent, which we will return to
unless we are proactive about searching for evidences of grace.
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samuel miles