Sermon Illustrations about Self-Righteousness
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Hold Your Judgment
A grocery store check-out clerk once wrote to advice-columnist Ann Landers to complain that she had seen people buy "luxury" food items—like ...
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Responses to Grace
Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread; the self-righteous resent grace.
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Actions Still Speak Loudest
Here is a little rule I have come to believe: the more dramatic and pious we become about out faith, the more likely it is that we are trying to please ...
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Jesus' Strategy Towards the Self-Righteous
Jesus never attacked the sinner. He simply said, "I forgive you." Meanwhile, he attacked the self-righteous with a vengeance, because he knew ...
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Unmerited Superiority
We are not happy because we are unforgiving, and we are unforgiving because we feel superior to others.
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Know-It-All Prayers
The knowledge of where people are wrong is a hindrance to prayer, not an assistance. "I want to tell you of the difficulties so that you may pray ...
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The Real Alternative to Pharisaism
The Christian alternative to Pharisaism is not Publicanism but costly discipleship. The laxity of the Publican is just as repugnant to God as the self-righteousness ...
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Thanksgiving Casts Out Pride
To thank with all your heart is an art--an art which the Holy Spirit teaches. And you need not worry that the man who can really say "Deo gratias" ...
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The Seemingly Right Thing
At their school carnival, our kids won four free goldfish (lucky us!), so out I went Saturday morning to find an aquarium. The first few I priced ranged ...
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But for the Grace of God...
As murder story writers assume, and as most of us learn in experience, we have in us capacities for fury, fear, envy, greed, conceit, callousness, and ...
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