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Five More Habits of the Meek

February 13, 2023

Make friends with meek people “Make no friendship with a man given to anger… lest you learn his ways and...

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Five Habits of the Meek

February 12, 2023

Moderate your expectations of others. “He knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust”...

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This Blessing Is Costly

February 11, 2023

Submission means to put your mission under (sub) the mission of someone else. Christ calls me to put my hopes...

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Power under Control

February 10, 2023

What comes to mind when you hear the word ‘meekness'? A person who is soft spoken? Maybe has...

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Where Godly Grief Comes From

February 09, 2023

State your sin clearly, without excuse or evasion. Spiritual mourning is not feeling a general sense of failure. The hypocrite...

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Your Joy Depends on This

February 08, 2023

There’s an old saying: “What the eye doesn’t see, the heart doesn’t grieve.” When Johnny cracks his mother’s vase...

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Comfort for Sinners

February 07, 2023

What can possibly comfort people who feel the tremendous weight of sin? Here is how Jesus comforts those who mourn.

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What Spiritual Mourning Is

February 06, 2023

Spiritual mourning follows naturally from becoming poor in spirit. Swinging on the first ring of being poor in spirit will...

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The Gateway to God’s Blessing

February 05, 2023

Pride is the gateway sin that opens the door to other sins. Humility is the gateway blessing that opens...

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This Cuts against the Grain of Our Culture

February 04, 2023

The Beatitudes are like a progression of playground monkey rings: humility, mourning, meekness, righteousness, mercy, purity, and peace.

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