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Indulgence Leads to Destruction

When I was growing up in Johannesburg, we used to go across to Pretoria where we had relatives who owned a bakery and pastry shop. When new employees ...


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Self-Destructive Habits

While staying with my friends Tim and Jill Jones, I watched their hamster, Hammy, in his little cage. Hammy has a warm nest of cedar shavings to curl ...


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Beyond Feelings

Feeling better has become more important to us than finding God.


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What We Need Is Soul Food

It is my conviction that a very large part of mankind's ills and of the world's misery is due to the rampant practice of trying to feed the soul with ...


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The Generation of the Self

While evangelicals reject "unbiblical Narcissism," there is little remorse today for the sinful self; prime concern centers, rather, on self-potential, ...


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Self-Indulgence: Enemy of Gratitude

Self-indulgence is the enemy of gratitude, and self-discipline usually its friend and generator. That is why gluttony is a deadly sin. The early desert ...


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Self-Pity as an Art

The attractiveness of pity and the ugliness of self-pity are unarguable. Yet we live in a society in which self-pity far exceeds pity. The excessively ...


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The Wrong God

The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think for yourself whether much of your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly of you. ...


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Only God Satisfies

The man or woman who does not know God demands an infinite satisfaction from other human beings which they cannot give, and in the case of the man, he ...


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Home Mission Field

We have a real problem in this country when it comes to values. We have become the kind of societies that civilized countries used to send missionaries ...


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