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No Need to Be the Best

I know perfectly well that, wherever I go and preach, there are many better preachers known and heard than I am; all that I can say about it is that the ...


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Learning the Hard Way

When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; ...


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Too Much Talk

There is danger ... in doing too many interviews. Too much talk can make you fat-headed: You get the idea that everything you say is worth being recorded ...


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Great People Do for Others

In the recent NCAA basketball Final Four playoffs here at Dallas, I was interested in the statement made by one of the coaches prior to the game. He was ...


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Humility Defined

To be humble is to be so sure of one's self and one's mission that one can forgo calling excessive attention to one's self and status. And ...


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Eulogies Ring False

Funerals of pastors are solemn affairs. At times when I attend one, however, I am struck by a strange kind of irony. After a lifetime of ministry supposedly ...


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Serving Vs. Being Served

I was ministering in Fourth Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. We had a Thursday morning father-son breakfast, six-thirty. It was to be over by quarter ...


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Stay Low

When a man gets up so high (spiritual mountaintop) that he cannot reach down and save poor sinners, there is something wrong.


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A Humble Self-Estimate

Take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding and humble estimate of oneself is the highest and most valuable of all lessons. To ...


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Service before Self

How can I illustrate what Paul is trying to say [in (Philippians 1:21-26)]? With the story of Dr. Paul Toaspern, a brilliant man, a theologian, who lived ...


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