Tag: humility
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“Still Unknown”
There are some consequences of accepting the idea that God is the One “in whom we live and move and have our being …”
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Study Notes – 1 Chronicles 17 16-27
We are studying 1 Chronicles 17:16-27 for Sunday, December 29. After our glance at Mary’s prayer of praise last Sunday, we are coming back to 1 Chronicles and picking up where we left off a couple of weeks ago, with David’s response to YHWH’s announcement that YHWH is going to bless and establish David’s “house.”…
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Third Sunday in Lent
[“The Humble Questioner,” a sermon for First Unitarian Church, Louisville, Sunday, March 24.] I come from a tradition in which it’s customary to prepare a sermon as a reflection on a text – so here’s one text – it’s a little proverb, actually, that according to tradition was collected by one of the wisest people…
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Baptism of the Lord and a little more on James 4 1-10
Some last-minute perspective on James 4:1-10 – with respect to pride and humility: It may be worth comparing James on “conflicts and disputes” and on the matter of pride and humility with a story about conflicts and disputes from the history of ancient Israel: Numbers 12. This is the story where Miriam and Aaron criticize…
Matters of Interpretation 