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Desperately Wicked

The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood lurks, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often ...


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Acknowledging Sin

The man who knows his sins is greater than one who raises a dead man by his prayer.


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Hearing the Voice of God

So long as the church pretends or assumes to preach absolute values, but actually preaches relative and secondary values, it will merely hasten the process ...


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Pity vs. Self-Pity

The attractiveness of pity and the ugliness of self-pity are unarguable. Yet we live in a society in which self-pity far exceeds pity. The excessively ...


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You're a Hypocrite, Too

One of the enduring images in Christian culture is the praying hypocrite--the slave trader who reads the Bible in the hull of the ship; the preacher whose ...


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How to Become a Dunce

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast the less he knows of it.


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The Most Common Lie

The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself.


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Transcendent Boldness

There is a false boldness for Christ that only comes from pride. A man may rashly expose himself to the world's dislike and even deliberately provoke ...


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Lost Responsibility

The single greatest loss in my time has been the idea that we are moral agents. Religion helped a great deal here. Religion taught that we are accountable ...


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Knowledge of Our Neediness

In our more honest moments, all of us know what needy people we are.


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