This is the question that splits rooms. One side preaches wealth as proof of faith. The other preaches poverty as proof of holiness. Both are reading half a Bible. Here is the whole one. 𝗚𝗼𝗱 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵. Abraham was "very ri...
Paul, who wrote half the New Testament, said something most of us would never say about ourselves. "I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castawa...
Don't exalt laziness and call is modesty. And don't be the best and take the glory. "Be ten times better then point up". It is not how well we do but is it with a heart that wants the glory for himself ? I should do excellently well and...
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Some of us were taught, quietly, that ambition is carnal. That wanting to be excellent is pride in a suit. That the humble thing is to stay small and let the world have the top. Scripture never taught that. We did. "Seest thou a man dil...
There is a verse I avoided for years because it indicted me. "It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep." Psalm 127:2 Vain. Rising early, sitting late, eating an...
Psalm 127:2 names a bread most of us are eating and have never identified. "It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows." Bread of sorrows. Not bread that causes sorrow. Bread made of it. Bread whose...
I wonder, what kind of understanding did Isaac have, then in his days, that made him lay to be slain? "And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac hi...