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Humility Month Day 23: Jesus Reinstates Peter

How do you treat the people who weren’t there for you? Who let you down? Who blew it – with you? How good is the church at reinstating people after they’ve blown it? I invite you to get a Bible – in print or electronic – and start working through all or part of the prayers, scripture reading, questions, and devotional reading below. Continue reading

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Humility Month Day 21: Apart from Jesus We Can Do Nothing

Jesus told his disciples that apart from him, they could do nothing. Is that really true? Continue reading

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Humility Month Day 20: Washing Feet

Foot washing: who would want that job? Jesus takes that role and tells his disciples to do that for one another. What a humble role! But the King of Kings chooses this role. What does this mean for those stuck in humble conditions? Continue reading

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Humility Month Day 17: Take Up Your Cross and Follow Jesus

We may be content to remain what we call ‘ordinary people’: but He is determined to carry out a quite different plan. To shrink back from that plan is not humility; it is laziness and cowardice. To submit to it is not conceit or megalomania; it is obedience. CS Lewis Continue reading

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Failing To Understand Success

“Yeah, my friends sounded enthusiastic at first, but then they just kind of blew me off when I tried to get together.  Some of them don’t even talk to me anymore.” “We’ve met a bunch of neighbors and see them … Continue reading

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