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Showing posts with label Pride. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pride. Show all posts
Friday, July 24, 2026

Don’t get puffy

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1 Corinthians 8:1 “…Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.” 1 Corinthians 13:4 “Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth n...
Friday, July 17, 2026

Holes in your stockings

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“…in one place in Virginia, where Mr. [John] Leland went to preach one cold day, the principal people were in the habit of going out before ...
Friday, June 05, 2026

More John Leland

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Captain Abner Lee, who lived near Lyme, Massachusetts, would have meetings in his house. He would bring in seats and a moveable pulpit. On o...
Friday, March 29, 2024

Arrogantly assuming Academic Elevation

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In a Facebook group dedicated to the subject of “New Testament Textual Criticism,” a contributor using the name Stephen Ford posted a critic...
Wednesday, November 07, 2018

Going up the way you come down

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There’s an old story (apocryphal, perhaps) told  about a young Southern preacher who swaggered up into the pulpit with great confidence. He ...
Thursday, March 29, 2018

Two wrong turns in response to modernism

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Two Wrong Turns Don’t Make a Right Introduction Beginning in the late 1800s and concluding (to some extent) in the early 1900s, [i] p...
Saturday, April 29, 2017

The Reverend Doctor Mess

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Last week Pastor Jim attended a preachers’ conference at the High Street Baptist Church.  The lofty room turned out to be full of “doctors” ...
Tuesday, November 15, 2016

The ignorant condescending conceit of the ignorant educated elite

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Trump Won Because Voters Are Ignorant, Literally -- "Last night [Nov 8] we saw something historic: the dance of the dunces. Never have...
Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Preaching pride, punctured

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The new pastor felt good after preaching his first message at his new church. While driving home he asked his wife, "How many great pre...
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Hero worship and celebrity status clergy

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Most dictionaries define "hero worship" as something like "foolish or excessive admiration of someone." Our society is f...
Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Pride goeth before destruction

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Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill ...