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pride

  • Some Fires Do Not Need More Wood

    We live in a world that practically runs on outrage now. Everybody is offended, reacting, posting, correcting, arguing, tweeting and sub-tweeting, unfriending, reposting screenshots, and occasionally writing entire emotional dissertations over a sentence somebody probably typed while half-awake and looking for coffee. Somewhere along the line, many people started treating self-control like weakness and emotional…

  • Cedar Walls and Nail-Scarred Hands

    I built my walls of cedar pride,Convinced His temple could abide“Another day, another year,”While I chased dreams I held too dear. I called it wisdom, patient, wise—To keep my comforts, guard my skies.But underneath my careful schemes,My altar gathered dust and dreams. Then in the quiet, whispers came,A holy grief, a gentle flame:“If not now,…

  • When God Teaches a Proud Heart to Bow: A Study in Daniel 4

    There is a reason Daniel 4 reads like no other chapter in Scripture. It is the testimony of a once-pagan king who learned—through a long, humiliating wilderness—that the Most High truly reigns. His own words summarize the lesson: “those that walk in pride he is able to abase” (Daniel 4:37). If the great monarch of…