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Max Lucado Confesses Struggle
Author and pastor Max Lucado said that giving up beer helped him get closer to God. Lucado said, "I come from a family of alcoholism. If there's ...
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Humility Defined
What is humility? It is that habitual quality whereby we live in the truth of things: the truth that we are creatures and not the Creator; the truth that ...
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Healthy Self-Denial
Self-denial has its place in a Christian’s life, but God doesn’t ask you to choose what is most painful to you. If you followed this path, ...
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Marriage: Great Way to Die
In Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir, author D. J. Waldie observes that the biggest drawback to living alone is having nobody to forgive. It is not that you ...
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Overcoming Self
Learn to sabotage every plan your self-nature presents to you. ... When you are faithful in this way, it is almost as good for your body as it is for ...
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MasterCard Mentality
Christians, of all people, should understand that the MasterCard mentality is not the way to master life. The pattern Jesus established was one of deferring ...
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Lesson from Gethsemane
Gethsemane teaches us that the kingdom of God is entered only through the denial of one's own will and the affirmation of the will of God. Therefore, ...
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Real Cross-Bearing
To deny self does not mean to deny things. It means to give yourself wholly to Christ and share in His shame and death. To take up a cross does not mean ...
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Worth Fighting For?
The Bishop of Assisi once said to St. Francis, "I think your life is too hard, too rough. You don't possess anything in this world." And ...
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Hearers Only, Not Doers
Among the plastic saints of our times Jesus has to do all the dying and all we want is to hear another sermon about His dying.
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