You're blessed when you're at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God and his rule. -- Matthew 5:3, The Message Our culture today believes in fame for fame's sake. -- Actor Rob Lowe, Radio Interview, June 12, 2014. Jesus in his introductory sermon gives us a new way of behaving in the kingdom of God. Rather than the kingdom of power, fame, greed, and possession, Jesus teaches an "upside down" kingdom of poverty of spirit, of practical mourning, meekness, desire for true righteousness, … [Read more...] about Devotions: Beatitudes — Poverty of Spirit
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Fame, Glory and the Struggle of a Christian Academic
As a student in the secular academy -- wait. No. If Plato was right (and I think he was spot on here), then whether a student of the secular academy or a fireman or a pastor, I am lured by ever-glistening immortal fame. Every one of us, no matter what he does, is longing for the endless fame, the incomparable glory that is theirs, and the nobler he is, the greater his ambition, because he is in love with the eternal. Symposium 208d: And did you know, the sweet singing of Homer's sirens was not dangerous for its … [Read more...] about Fame, Glory and the Struggle of a Christian Academic