Do you know somebody tenaciously unwilling? Perhaps the best way to describe that person is obstinate, stubborn, and unregenerate? It doesn't matter whether this person does it with the best intentions or with the worse motives, it just matters that this person will and frequently stonewall people and their counsel to him/her and very rarely yields.
There is a problem in our self-help ladened culture when we diagnose ourselves with all these […]
What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? - Romans 6:1-2 Have you ever continued doing something you knew was wrong just because you could get away with it? You continue to lie because it doesn't hurt anybody and because nobody will call you out on it.
Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
I had a haunting thought last night: what the heck am I waiting for? Doesn't it seem that we're always waiting for the right moment, the right circumstances for something to blow open that would force us into a reaction? It's like we keep talking about doing something and that's the extent of it-- we talk about it.
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For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? For what can a man give in return for his soul? - Mark 8:36-37 Such a common saying.
The big picture.
The tiger mom says, "'A'? Why didn't you an 'A+'?" And perhaps you were one of those kids who was forced to attain the nonexistent grade on a nonexistent scale just for the love of a parent.
Atheists sometimes tell me that I am wasting my breath when I pray to God.