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Don't Blow Your Own Horn

Make sure it is God's trumpet you are blowing--if it is only yours, it won't wake the dead; it will simply disturb the neighbors.


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The Danger of Raw Ambition

Raw ambition pours sand in the ministry gears and forces the machinery to produce an unholy product: human pride.


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Remembering We Are Small

... At Sagamore Hill, Theodore Roosevelt and I used to play a little game together. After an evening of talk, we would go out on the lawn and search the ...


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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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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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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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