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Dealing with Difficult People

Coping with difficult people is always a problem, especially if the difficult person happens to be yourself.


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A Fruitless Quest

The search for self-fulfillment is endless, and endlessly frustrating.


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Justifying Your Own Sins

I welcome news of the sins of others because it makes my sins appear more normal. Misery loves company.


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Wasted Talents

You can have certain creaturely talents which are amazing, often. But if they are misdirected, not in praise to the Lord but in praise to oneself, or ...


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No "No" in TV Land

Many of our adolescents and young adults cannot "just say no" to drugs because their whole approach to life has been shaped by television, the ...


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Freedom Gone Wrong

Self-fulfillment soon grows into a quest for self-indulgence with a vocabulary of I, Me, Mine and self-indulgence, in turn, soon becomes unbridled. The ...


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Too Much of a Good Thing

Our souls may receive infinite hurt, and be rendered incapable of all virtue, merely by the use of innocent and lawful things. What is more innocent than ...


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The Ascetic Life

Self-denial of all kinds is the very life and soul of piety.


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Leaving Our Expectations with the Dog

Beware of the mind-set in looking to see if the church will meet your needs. ... When my family is ready to leave for church, we take certain expectations ...


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Liberty and Justice for Me

The quest for freedom is becoming personal rather than political. It is a quest of self-hood, and its outcome is no better. When self-denial goes out ...


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