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pride

  • When the Heart Gets Stirred

    Scripture Focus: “He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.” — Proverbs 16:32 Have you ever noticed that two people can experience the exact same situation and respond completely differently? One shrugs it off. The other carries it around for…

  • The Same Center

    Approximate reading time: 8–10 minutes (This is a little longer than most.) When we think of pride, most of us picture someone with an oversized ego. We imagine arrogance, boasting, self-promotion, and a constant need to be recognized. Pride seems easy enough to spot because it usually makes a lot of noise. Insecurity, on the…

  • Still Under Construction

    “Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.” — Philippians 1:6 Most of us like to think we’re making good progress in our Christian walk. We learn to be patient, extend grace, and speak kindly. Then someone cuts…

  • 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…