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Humility Month Day 37: Getting the Heart Right
What is your heart telling you today? Culture tells us to trust our hearts. The Bible warns us that our hearts can be deceptive. We want to feel things are right in our heart. If we feel the tension, if our hearts are restless, we struggle and seek to put our hearts at peace. What can we do to get our hearts right? Continue reading
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Humility Month Day 36: God Gives Grace to the Humble
Pursuing humility, like Jesus did, is contrary to our natural desires and contrary to the way of the world. However, it is the calling of every disciple and grace is found by those who know they need it. Continue reading
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Humility Month Day 35: Getting Close to God
Double-mindedness: to want God’s favor and everything the worldly culture offers – especially power, influence, and wealth. Divided loyalties lead to divided hearts and divided churches. It leads to sin. But God has more grace than we have sin. And he shows us a better way: the way of humility. Continue reading
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Humility Month Day 34: No Favoritism
Favoritism – making distinctions and showing partiality – is back in fashion (as if it ever went out). Cultural commentators call it “tribalism,” We divide ourselves by status, age, politics, gender, ethnicity, education, etc. It shows up and brings divisions within God’s church. But God desires his children to be a loving family: the salt of the earth, a light shining in the darkness of our culture. Continue reading
Humility Month Day 33: The Right Things to Think On Deeply
How would your world be different if you trained your mind to look at the best? How would your heart be different if, every time you felt a little anxiety, you named it and prayed about it with thanksgiving? This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it. Continue reading
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