Sermon Illustrations about Self-discipline
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Difficult and Untried
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult, and left untried.
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God Will Not Be Put Off
The Word of God is demanding. It demands a stretch of time in our day--even though it be a very modest one--in which it is our only companion. ... God ...
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Freedom Is Not Autonomy
I particularly like to warn my American audiences about this. Freedom is not the same thing as autonomy. Freedom does not mean I am a law unto myself. ...
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Love Is Self-Giving
Buddha once said "If one person conquers in battle a thousand times a thousand, and another conquers himself, he who conquers himself is the greatest ...
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Masters of Our Consent
We are not masters of our own feeling, but we are by God's grace masters of our consent.
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Exhilerating Obedience
Freedom does not mean the absence of constraints or moral absolutes. Suppose a skydiver at 10,000 feet announces to the rest of the group, "I'm ...
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Discipline before Freedom
Our habitual misuse of words has led us to imagine that Christian freedom consists in the moment, and we protest against anything that would put fetters ...
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The Calling to Speak
Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. ...
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