Tag: humility
I Have Humbled You – Deut. Chpt. 8
When someone mentions humility, what immediately comes to mind? Humility isn't a favorable characteristic in modern culture. In fact, the culture openly rewards pride and arrogance while casting the humble to the curb. God is different. Humility is valuable to God. He wants to see humility in the hearts of…
Devotion: A Humble Heart Can Trust the Scriptures
I Cor. 2:12-16 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches, but…
Show Me Your Ways – Russell Fragar/Hillsong
Show Me Your Ways is a beautiful song of humble submission. It offers a captivating melody and a 3/4 meter that is rarely heard these days. This song works extremely well in the lead up to Bible study. Best of all, you don't need a full band to pull it…
God Is No Slacker – Lk. 18:1-30
In the 1st Back to the Future film, the principle at Marty's school, Mr. Strickland, had a habit of calling students he wasn't fond of slackers. He called Marty a slacker for being routinely late for school. I was thinking about that while I was studying for today's lesson and…
Humble Pie Is Best Served First – Lk. 14:1-24
Are you familiar with the idiom 'eating humble pie'? It's an idiom used to describe facing humiliation and then having apologize for what has been done. I was thinking of humble pie as I studied today's text. When I got to the end of my study, for some unknown reason,…
Knowing Your Place in the Kingdom – Lk. 9:46-62
So we've been talking a lot about faith and belief in recent weeks. My hope is that those of us who have been going through this book together now have a firm grasp of what they both are, what they have in common, and how they differ. Today, our text…
Only True God — The Song’s Title Says It All!
Kathryn Scott and Paul Baloche teamed up to write this beautiful song of humility and faith. Baloche covered it in his Our God Saves CD. It is one of the most humbling worship songs from the Integrity and Leadworship Songs collections. This one comes highly recommended if your worship team…
Two Spies and a Lying Harlot — Josh. 2:1-5
Josh. 2:1-5 1 And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into a harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there. 2 And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold,…