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Culture
Every human culture is an extremely complex mixture of brilliant truth, married half-truths and over resistance to the truth. Every culture will have some idolatrous discourse within it. And yet every culture will have some witness to God’s truth in it. God gives out good gifts of wisdom, talent, beauty and skill completely without regard…
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Identity
Smack-dab in the middle of your internal conversation is what you tell yourself about your identity. Human beings are always assigning to themselves some kind of identity. There are only two places to look. Either you will be getting your identity vertically, from who you are in Christ, or you will be shopping for it…
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Self-satisfaction is the death of progress
Martin De Haan years ago said, “Self-satisfaction is the death of progress. The most boring people I ever meet are the ones who take up my time telling me what they have done.” So none of us reaches perfection this side of heaven, it tells me something else. It tells me that it’s our imperfection. …
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Soaking the self-satisfied
Charles Haddon Spurgeon said, he once met a man who said he had arrived, he had attained, he had reached total sanctification in this life. Spurgeon said, “Oh, really?” And he did something that I don’t necessarily recommend though, it sounds pretty fun. He took a pitcher of water and poured it all over the…