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05
Jul
2009
Selfishness and Sacrifice  

7 hours ago by cuckoo

Some excerpts from Stephen Howard, "Love, selfishness, and sacrifice," Pilgrimage, Vol. 15, N0. 4, July/August 1989 " [We are often taught that] The only moral alternatives available to us are the `opposites' of selfishness and sacrifice. ... Selfishness is seen as unloving and sinful, and self-sacr ...

Nihil NimIs - myimpossibilitytheorems.blogspot.com · Rank: 131,134

04
Jul
2009
Advice to Newlyweds (and Others)  

2 days ago by alifetransformed

I got an encouraging email today from an old friend who was recently married. She was kind to remind me of how my wife and I had helped her in her own walk with Christ many years ago. She was genuinely appreciative. And now she’s praying for us! She was also very humble. She basically said that divo ...

A Life Transformed - alifetransformed.wordpress.com · Rank: 75,633 · 1 reference

03
Jul
2009
Sacrifice in the Boardroom: A Story  

2 days ago by Mark

Like the villains in Atlas Shrugged, the rhetoric in the public square exalts sacrifice and denounces selfishness. Despite exhortation, we see the opposite: a lot more selfishness than sacrifice. Especially in the financial and corporate world, of which I have been a part. Sure, there’s talk about “ ...

The Soul of Atlas - soulofatlas.com · 1 reference

Wanting to want…  

2 days ago by anotherpilgrim

God, I don’t love you. I don’t even want to love you. But, I want to want to love you - Theresa of Avila I don’t always mean what I pray. Often, my prayers are nothing more than words I know I should say. “Thank you Lord, for helping X/L through that,” or so I’ll pray when [...]

Pilgrim's Progress - anotherpilgrim.wordpress.com

02
Jul
2009
sammm1777  

3 days ago by sammm1777

Forgiveness of Sin Prayer Heavenly Father, I (we) pray for myself (ourselves) _____, _____, _____, and _____. I (we) ask You to forgive me (us) for all of my (our) sins, iniquities, trespasses, transgressions, sins of commission, sins of omission, unknown sins or hidden sins according to Psalms 19:1 ...

Good Word - sammm1777.wordpress.com · 2 references

Mosiah, Chapter 19  

3 days ago by maryrubow

What do you do with a wicked king? In proverbs 29:2 we read, “When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.” When those who lead are living rigteously, they are kind, strong, unselfish and christ-like. They do not bring their own people ...

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The Easiest Job in the World  

3 days ago by alifetransformed

Satan has the easiest job in the world. Think about it: God told Adam and Eve in the garden, “Do not eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge or you will die” ( Genesis 2:17). Adam and Eve had only ONE rule. They could do anything else they wanted and they would live in perfect communion with God fore ...

A Life Transformed - alifetransformed.wordpress.com · Rank: 75,633 · 1 reference

01
Jul
2009
Me Culture  

4 days ago by Julie Clawson

So last weekend I went to go see Food Inc. (I’ll get a review posted about it one of these days…). It was an amazing, and disturbing film, but part of the experience was seeing it at the Alamo Drafthouse here in Austin (which imho, is the ONLY place to see movies in town). Before the films the Draft ...

onehandclapping - julieclawson.com · Rank: 6,015 · 210 references

30
Jun
2009
More on Self-Interest  

5 days ago by Mark

I can't get over the instances of self-interest among Christians, and that, in the best possible sense: seeking one's own pleasure in God. John Piper quotes David Brainerd, a missionary and a man of God. [Brainerd says that] "love is a pleasing passion; it affords pleasure to the mind where it is" B ...

The Soul of Atlas - soulofatlas.com · 1 reference

CTA accidents and self-centered passengers  

5 days ago by Brian Mayzure

According to an article on Tribune’s ChicagoBreakingNews, this morning, a person was hit and killed by a Red Line train at the Sox-35th station. It is still unclear if this person was accidentally hit by the train (which can be caused by being too close on the blue safety line), if this person inten ...

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