Showing posts with label humility. Show all posts
Showing posts with label humility. Show all posts
Sunday, June 16, 2019

The Art of Divine Contentment: An Exposition of Philippians 4:11 by Thomas Watson. Excerpt 81

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Watson, near the close of his book, sets forth some rules for becoming contented: Rule 3. Get an humble spirit. The humble man is the cont...
Sunday, September 17, 2017

Impressions, by Martin Wells Knapp, 66

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In a previous excerpt, Knapp stated that there are four features of "impressions" from God. These are Scriptural; Right (consist...
Sunday, May 21, 2017

Impressions, by Martin Wells Knapp, 49

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In a previous excerpt, Knapp stated that there are four features of "impressions" from God. These are Scriptural; Right (consist...
Sunday, March 12, 2017

Impressions, by Martin Wells Knapp, 39

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In a previous excerpt, Knapp stated that there are four features of "impressions" from God. These are Scriptural; Right (consist...
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Sunspots 532

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Christianity: An essay in Relevant on " What ...
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Sunday, February 08, 2015

Excerpts from Orthodoxy, by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 8

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Humility was largely meant as a restraint upon the arrogance and infinity of the appetite of man. He was always outstripping his merci...
Tuesday, October 21, 2014

What Todd Wood would like to hear an evolutionary creationist say, and what Dennis Venema would like to hear a young-earth creationist say

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That's a long title! I just found two interesting articles, both quite readable, and neither too long for the average reader who is in...
Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Should a Christian iron his clothes?

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The title was almost "What would Jesus iron?" but that seems to come perilously close to a violation of the third Commandment, and...
Sunday, March 11, 2012

Prayer and humility, part five

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How lowly the attitude of Abraham, the friend of God, when pleading for God to stay His wrath against Sodom! “Which am but sackcloth and ash...
Sunday, March 04, 2012

Prayer and humility, part four

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Humility holds in its keeping the very life of prayer. Neither pride nor vanity can pray. Humility, though, is much more than the absence o...
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Sunday, February 26, 2012

Prayer and humility, part three

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Humility is an indispensable requisite of true prayer. It must be an attribute, a characteristic of prayer. Humility must be in the praying...
Sunday, February 19, 2012

Prayer and humility, part two

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The parable of the Pharisee and publican stands out in such bold relief that we must again refer to it. The Pharisee seemed to be inured to ...
Sunday, February 12, 2012

Prayer and humility, part one

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In humility there is the total absence of pride, and it is at the very farthest distance from anything like self-conceit. There is no self-p...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

What Todd Wood would like to hear an evolutionary creationist say

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Todd C. Wood is an articulate young-earth creationist, who, unlike most young-earth creationists, has impeccable scientific credentials, an...
Friday, April 24, 2009

Stooping

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Nehemiah 3:5 And next to them the Tekoites repaired, but their nobles would not stoop to serve their Lord. (All references ESV , which allo...
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Thursday, February 12, 2009

Apologetics according to James W. Sire

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I recently read A Little Primer on Humble Apologetics , by James W. Sire . It is little, being small in format, and only 111 pages long. (D...
Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Sunspots 192

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Science: The Vatican is honoring Galileo as a pioneer of integra...
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Sunday, February 27, 2005

Abishag: Beauty contestant and bedwarmer

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King David was old, and cold. So his servants looked for a woman to lie in the bed as a human bed warmer. Abishag was chosen for this task. ...
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