Category Archives: pride
“To Sit and Wait”
“Sit ye here while I go and pray yonder.” Matthew 26:36, KJV It is a hard thing to be kept in the background at a time of crisis. In the Garden of Gethsemane eight of the eleven disciples were left to do nothing. Jesus went to the front to pray; Peter, James and John [...]
Delusions Understood (Sort Of)
by Bryan Lowe I need to briefly share what delusions are like. I’m going to flip the switch and flood the room with light, and watch the “critters” scuttle to find a hiding place. I’m doing this to help heal myself, and for you to understand this awful state of mind. First of all–definitions. Delusion [...]
Shedding Self Importance
Shortly after Lynn and I were accepted by KBCC to be their senior pastor we traveled to California to be with family for a few weeks. On our return to Alaska we drove from Anchorage to our home in Homer on the Kenai Peninsula. I could hardly wait to jump in and be a pastor. As we drove [...]
Where Did Our Treasure Go?
The Parable of the Pharisee and the Publican is a parable told by Jesus in the gospel of Luke. In it, a Pharisee, grateful for his own virtue, is judged lower than a tax collector who is ashamed of his own sin. The lesson teaches the value of displaying humility by seeking forgiveness for one’s [...]
The Ugliness of Self-Pity
14 “Yet I curse the day I was born! May no one celebrate the day of my birth. 15 I curse the messenger who told my father, “Good news—you have a son!” 16 Let him be destroyed like the cities of old that the Lord overthrew without mercy. Terrify him all day long with battle [...]
Is it Finally Time to Yield?
Will you say, “Yes, Lord. I am Your servant. Take me, use me, spend me. Fulfill all Your holy, eternal purposes in and through my life, whatever the cost”? I read a story about a radio exchange that took place some time ago between a U.S. Navy ship and Canadian authorities off [...]
Riding the Underground with Jesus
“And he said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest a while.” For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat.’ Mark 6:31, ESV Our Savior would never drive us to do things with a whip. He is not a taskmaster, and he will [...]
Becoming Real is Not That Easy
“You say, ‘I am rich. I have everything I want. I don’t need a thing!’ And you don’t realize that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.” Rev. 3:17, NLT God is the only one we would allow to speak to us so boldly and directly. If you would come [...]
Nothing But Leaves
“Seeing at a distance a fig tree in leaf, He went to see if perhaps He would find anything on it; and when He came to it, He found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.” Mark 11:13, NASB Perplexing isn’t it? I personally have lived with a certain amount of [...]