Showing posts with label pride. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pride. Show all posts
Sunday, June 07, 2026

I want to thank myself

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19-year-old Mirra Andreeva won the French Open women's tennis tournament, a major competition, on June 6, 2026. Tennis tournament winner...
Friday, June 06, 2025

Trump vs. Musk, or the other way around, in light of Matthew 18

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Matthew 18:15 “If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained bac...
Saturday, August 20, 2022

Musing about The Rings of Power, based on J. R. R. Tolkien's works

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The Rings of Power, based on the works of J. R. R. Tolkien , is to be available for streaming on Amazon Prime in a couple of weeks. I have ...
Sunday, November 04, 2018

The Art of Divine Contentment: An Exposition of Philippians 4:11 by Thomas Watson. Excerpt 51

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Watson continues to consider the evil of being discontented. Evil 2nd. Consider the sinfulness of it; which appears in three things; the c...
Wednesday, September 05, 2018

Sunspots 693

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: The Arts: CBS Overtime shows a young lady, not in high...
Sunday, February 18, 2018

The Art of Divine Contentment: An Exposition of Philippians 4:11 by Thomas Watson. Excerpt 15

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Here is a just reproof to such as are discontented with their condition. This disease is almost epidemical. Some not content with the calli...
Thursday, January 26, 2017

Counting the people

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2 Samuel 24 :2  The king said to Joab the captain of the army, who was with him, “Now go back and forth through all the tribes of Israel...
Thursday, November 17, 2016

Pride is a more important sin than homosexual activity or abortion

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Pride versus homosexual activity and abortion. There are approximately 50 condemnations of pride in the Bible, depending on what counts as...
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Monday, August 15, 2016

Pride goes before a fall

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The Wikipedia defines pride thus: Pride is an inwardly directed emotion that carries two antithetical meanings. With a negative connotatio...
Thursday, April 19, 2012

How insignificant humans are!

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Leonard Pitts, columnist for the Miami Herald , has written a splendid column about, of all things, the Titanic . Yes, the ship that sunk. ...
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Monday, January 03, 2011

Galadriel, Fëanor, (Feanor, without Tolkien's umlaut) and the Silmarils

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Fëanor, Galadriel, and the Silmarils The central story of Tolkien's sub-creation, at least until the time of the rings, is the story ...
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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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Friday, December 28, 2007

Madeleine L'Engle's The Other Side of the Sun

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The late Madeleine L'Engle was the author of more than one kind of book. I first met her as the author of Newbery winner A Wrinkle in T...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Sodom and homosexuality

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The story of the destruction of Sodom is told in Genesis 18:16 - 19:29 . It is not a pretty story. God sent two angels to the city. They spe...
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