Humility

Any discussion of humility and how we obtain is not complete without also addressing pride and humanity’s perennial struggle with this vice.

God makes it very clear in scripture that there is one thing in us that spells the ruin of our relationship with him and other people.

When Abraham Lincoln won the Presidential nomination, famous writer Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “We heard the result coldly and sadly. It seemed too rash, on a purely local reputation, to build so grave a trust in such anxious times.”

God wants the church to work together like a body, but we’re more like a body with cancer; we’re attacking ourselves…

The famous reformer Martin Luther and almost equally important reformer Huldreich Zwingli were contemporaries but most emphatically not friends.

Humility is one of the most difficult Christian virtues both to define and obtain. What is it exactly? How can we tell if we’re succeeding in becoming more humble?

“The Great Wave off Kanagawa”, one of the most famous pieces of Japanese art, was created during some of the hardest years of Katsushika Hokusai’s life.

As Christians, we often struggle with the dilemma of cultural relevancy pitted against cultural ‘purity.’ How do we honor God while living in a society that definitively does not? 

Individuality is viewed very differently in the Middle Eastern and Asian world than the West. The Eastern mentality is probably best summarized in an old adage that is ubiquitous throughout this part of the world: “The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.”