Instead of fighting the world, kill your ego.
04308 – Kill Your Ego!
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04238 – In Culture War Mode?
When you live in Culture War Mode there is always a battle to fight, a side to take, and people to fear. When you live in God's Kingdom there's always a stranger to welcome, a neighbor to befriend, and an enemy to love. --from Love Over Fear
03929 – Peace is Worth…
Peace is the only battle worth fighting.
03047 – Life is…
Life is no holiday game, nor a clever book, nor a school of instruction, nor a valley of tears, but it is a hard fight, a struggle, a wrestling with the principles of evil hand to hand, foot to foot. Every inch of the way must be disputed.
02843 – Washing Feet? Or Waging War?
I've been watching people with golden crosses around their necks and on their lapels shout at the TV about how serving gay and lesbian people is a violation of their “sincerely-held religious beliefs.” And I can't help but laugh at the sad irony of it. Two-thousand...
02802 – Attacks on Evil Can Produce More Evil
We all become well-disguised mirror images of anything that we fight too long or too directly. That which we oppose determines the energy and frames the questions after a while. Most frontal attacks on evil just produce another kind of evil in yourself, along with a...
02551 – Don’t Quit!
When things go wrong, as they sometimes will;When the road you're trudging seems all uphill;When the funds are low and the debts are high;And you want to smile but you have to sigh;When all is pressing you down a bit--Rest if you must. But don't you quit.Success is a...
01444 – Focusing Your Energy
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
01303 – No Violence Support in Pauline Letters
There is not a syllable in the Pauline letters that can be cited in support of Christians employing violence. Paul's occasional uses of military imagery (e.g., 2 Cor. 10:3-6, Phil. 1:27-30) actually have the opposite effect: the warfare imagery is drafted into the...
00955 – “Where Are Your Wounds?”
We will go before God to be judged, and God will ask us, “Where are your wounds?” and we will say, “We have no wounds” and God will ask, “Was there nothing worth fighting for?”