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A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. -
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The Nebulous "They"
George Herbert Mead, an influential early 20th-century sociologist, coined the term “generalized other” to describe the vague group we consider when shaping our actions. How often do we behave a certa... -
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Judging Others Stems from Self-Judgment
But it is important to be aware that the act of judging others has its origins in our self-judgment. As I often tell patients, “Shamed people shame people.” Long before we are criticizing others, the ... -
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If I am to give you credit, I need to find you credible, while avoiding the risk of seeming credulous in giving credence to your discreditable account. From religious credos to street cred, from profe... -
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The Gospel and the Other: Preaching in an Age of "Us vs. Them"
When conflict and division are driving both politics and media (including social media), the contrast between the way of the world and the way of Jesus stands out more than ever. How can pastors, task... -
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Shamed People Shame People: Sermon Illustration Tuesday
It is important to be aware that the act of judging others has its origins in our self-judgment. As I often tell patients, “Shamed people shame people.” Long before we are criticizing others, the sour... -
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Understanding Reframing with Physics and The Titanic (The Movie)
While the second example is a bit dated (Titanic is over approaching its third decade in circulation!) the logic holds and can be applied to a variety of films set in a historical context: I think of... -
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Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you. -
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Truth in the Pulpit: Why Intellectual Integrity Matters for Pastors
While sexual sin, financial scandals, and toxic work environments hurt pastoral credibility, a more subtle, and probably more common danger is carelessness with the truth. Intellectual integrity matte... -
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The Other Side of the River
There's a humorous, apocryphal story about a man standing by a river. On the opposite bank, a woman calls out, "How do I get to the other side of the river?" The man replies, "YOU A... -
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The Only Opinion That Matters
Most of us have heard of Babe Ruth, but have you ever heard of Babe Pinelli? Pinelli was an umpire in Major League Baseball who once called The Great Bambino (Ruth) out on strikes. When the crowd bega... -
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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. -
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Using Repetition to Make a Point
In the second century before Christ the great rival to Roman power in the Mediterranean world was Carthage, the Phoenician city-state located on the north African coast. It had been founded in 822 B.C... -
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The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others’ appraisals to play a determinin... -
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A Biblical Approach to Conversation
I was watching the old Dick Van Dyke Show recently, and he was at a party filled with pseudo intellectuals. Dick got trapped into a one-sided conversation with a self-absorbed philosophy professor. On... -
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Two Examples of Long Memories
As an amateur yet serious student of the American Civil War, I am constantly amazed at the sheer volume of material, which was preserved orally for half a century and longer, surrounding the key figur... -
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Getting to Know You
I have a little game I play when traveling. I regularly hear strangers meeting strangers, and usually within thirty seconds to a minute one asks the other, “What do you do?” Well, when someone asks me... -
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People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you w... -
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Almighty God, we often look to the words
Almighty God, we often look to the words of the world, rather than your Word. We follow the opinions of acquaintances, the popularity of celebrities, and the drive of leaders. We look all around us be... -
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You Know Most Everybody
Mark Twain’s travels through Europe became something of a triumphal tour, with the most distinguished figures on the continent eager to host him. He dined with royalty, intellectuals, and statesmen, h... -
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Taking a Deeper Look at Shaming
It’s wrong to shame someone!” the student asserted, with clear pain in her eyes. Just to be clear, I hadn’t done anything, but she seemed to be talking about some personal experience. “Is it always wr... -
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I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions ... -
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Becoming Aware of Our Lenses
In their excellent book Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes, E. Randolph Richards and Brandon J. O’Brien share the importance of recognizing the lens through which see the world: We speak as insi... -
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Wait, What Did You Say?
There’s a funny story about President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, which is probably apocryphal, but is nonetheless a good illustration of the importance of listening. The story goes that Roosevelt was... -
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The Discipline of Not Having the Last Word
In his book, Soul Keeping, pastor John Ortberg describes his mentorship by Dallas Willard early in his ministry. The following vignette occurred while Willard was teaching a philosphy course at the Un... -
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Categorized, Labeled, Cubbyholed
When I say “New Testament” or “a theological seminary,” in most cases I can see from their reaction that they immediately and radically reverse their evaluation. From a relatively high place in their ... -
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Which is the Bible Most Like?
What genre of literature is the Bible? How we answer this question will ultimately determine not just how we read scripture, but how it will ultimately shape our lives. One Sunday school teacher, teac... -
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Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are... -
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The moment you say that one set of moral ideas can be better than another, you are, in fact, measuring them both by a standard, saying that one of them conforms to that standard more nearly than the o... -
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Sermon Illustration Tuesday (1.15)
Arthur Conan Doyle, the ingenious creator of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, once found great humor in a practical joke he played on 12 famous friends. Each of these men was virtuous and highly respect...
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Top_level_categories by Reference
Genesis
Exodus
Numbers
Deuteronomy
Joshua
Ruth
1 Samuel
1 Kings
1 Chronicles
2 Chronicles
Ezra
Job
Psalm
- Ps 1 (4)
- Ps 2 (2)
- Ps 8 (12)
- Ps 9 (2)
- Ps 10 (1)
- Ps 13 (1)
- Ps 14 (2)
- Ps 15 (1)
- Ps 16 (4)
- Ps 17 (1)
- Ps 18 (1)
- Ps 19 (26)
- Ps 22 (5)
- Ps 23 (16)
- Ps 24 (7)
- Ps 25 (5)
- Ps 27 (13)
- Ps 29 (1)
- Ps 31 (1)
- Ps 32 (7)
- Ps 33 (2)
- Ps 34 (32)
- Ps 36 (4)
- Ps 37 (8)
- Ps 39 (2)
- Ps 40 (2)
- Ps 41 (2)
- Ps 42 (11)
- Ps 43 (2)
- Ps 44 (1)
- Ps 46 (19)
- Ps 49 (2)
- Ps 50 (5)
- Ps 51 (28)
- Ps 52 (1)
- Ps 55 (1)
- Ps 63 (1)
- Ps 65 (3)
- Ps 67 (2)
- Ps 69 (1)
- Ps 71 (1)
- Ps 72 (1)
- Ps 73 (5)
- Ps 74 (1)
- Ps 77 (2)
- Ps 78 (5)
- Ps 82 (7)
- Ps 84 (1)
- Ps 85 (2)
- Ps 86 (4)
- Ps 88 (1)
- Ps 90 (7)
- Ps 92 (1)
- Ps 94 (3)
- Ps 95 (1)
- Ps 96 (5)
- Ps 98 (1)
- Ps 99 (1)
- Ps 100 (2)
- Ps 101 (1)
- Ps 103 (9)
- Ps 104 (5)
- Ps 105 (1)
- Ps 106 (2)
- Ps 107 (1)
- Ps 111 (2)
- Ps 115 (1)
- Ps 116 (2)
- Ps 117 (2)
- Ps 118 (4)
- Ps 119 (24)
- Ps 121 (5)
- Ps 123 (1)
- Ps 126 (1)
- Ps 127 (3)
- Ps 128 (1)
- Ps 130 (3)
- Ps 131 (1)
- Ps 133 (3)
- Ps 136 (4)
- Ps 139 (26)
- Ps 143 (2)
- Ps 144 (2)
- Ps 145 (4)
- Ps 146 (2)
- Ps 147 (4)
- Ps 150 (1)
Proverbs
- Prov 1 (7)
- Prov 2 (4)
- Prov 3 (30)
- Prov 4 (8)
- Prov 5 (1)
- Prov 6 (2)
- Prov 7 (1)
- Prov 8 (2)
- Prov 9 (1)
- Prov 10 (4)
- Prov 11 (6)
- Prov 12 (5)
- Prov 14 (8)
- Prov 15 (7)
- Prov 16 (13)
- Prov 17 (5)
- Prov 18 (12)
- Prov 19 (7)
- Prov 20 (2)
- Prov 21 (4)
- Prov 22 (6)
- Prov 23 (2)
- Prov 24 (3)
- Prov 25 (3)
- Prov 27 (5)
- Prov 28 (7)
- Prov 29 (7)
- Prov 31 (5)
Ecclesiastes
Song of Solomon
Isaiah
- Isa 1 (20)
- Isa 2 (2)
- Isa 5 (1)
- Isa 6 (14)
- Isa 7 (3)
- Isa 9 (13)
- Isa 11 (2)
- Isa 25 (4)
- Isa 26 (8)
- Isa 28 (1)
- Isa 29 (2)
- Isa 30 (8)
- Isa 33 (2)
- Isa 40 (25)
- Isa 41 (15)
- Isa 42 (3)
- Isa 43 (16)
- Isa 44 (5)
- Isa 45 (6)
- Isa 46 (1)
- Isa 47 (1)
- Isa 48 (5)
- Isa 49 (3)
- Isa 50 (2)
- Isa 51 (1)
- Isa 53 (21)
- Isa 54 (3)
- Isa 55 (37)
- Isa 57 (4)
- Isa 58 (5)
- Isa 60 (3)
- Isa 61 (13)
- Isa 64 (8)
- Isa 65 (1)
- Isa 66 (3)
Jeremiah
Lamentations
Joel
Amos
Nahum
Zephaniah
Matthew
- Matt 1 (7)
- Matt 2 (4)
- Matt 3 (4)
- Matt 4 (9)
- Matt 5 (47)
- Matt 6 (43)
- Matt 7 (13)
- Matt 8 (5)
- Matt 9 (5)
- Matt 10 (8)
- Matt 11 (15)
- Matt 12 (6)
- Matt 13 (21)
- Matt 14 (10)
- Matt 15 (6)
- Matt 16 (9)
- Matt 17 (5)
- Matt 18 (10)
- Matt 19 (12)
- Matt 20 (4)
- Matt 21 (6)
- Matt 22 (16)
- Matt 23 (12)
- Matt 24 (5)
- Matt 25 (20)
- Matt 26 (5)
- Matt 27 (7)
- Matt 28 (17)