"In the same way, you who are younger, submit yourselves to your elders. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because ‘God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.’ ...
Many prophets appeal to us to seek the Lord. Especially in this time of trials, what does it mean to seek the Lord? Prophet Zephaniah says: “Seek the Lord, all you humble… Seek justice, seek humility.
The resurrection is an event addressed to hope and love, and only in that way can it be a challenge to agnosticism or the denial of God. When Sir Edmund Hillary conquered Mount Everest with Tenzin ...
"Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you." 1. Philippians 2: 3-11 : Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you ...
John Dickson is Founding Scholar of the Centre for Public Christianity, and visiting lecturer in the Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies at the University of Sydney. When Sir Edmund ...
"Cultural blindness carries spiritual consequences. When nationalism merges with worship, the humility of Jesus is displaced.
The Bible is, as Wilson’s title has it, the book of the people. We build our meanings together. By Frank Cottrell-Boyce The Book of the People: How to Read the Bible A N Wilson Atlantic Books, 213pp, ...
Religion has often trapped believers in what appears to be humility but is, in truth, a quiet form of unbelief.Many have been taught that to be spiritual is to think small, to downplay their gifts, to ...
Biblical scholars especially, but all of us in general, are sometimes tempted to think of reading and interpreting the Bible as a solitary enterprise. Scholars have no excuse for this egotism, as they ...