Pride can affect the most spiritually sound and mature Christian. Its dangers are real, and it’s alive and thriving in our world.
It can create deep wounds that leave ugly scars.
Pride can have destructive repercussions that change your life and/or the lives of those around you forever.
Continue reading The Power of Pride: Part 3
Powder puff football is dangerous.
But, not nearly as dangerous as pride.
Combine the two, and you get a 40 year-old woman enduring the first surgery of her life to repair a meniscus and totally reconstruct the ACL in her knee.
Yeah, yeah…powder puff football sounds safe. Everyone thinks it’s just this fun, easy-going, quasi football game for girls. I mean, any sport with the word PUFF in its very name couldn’t possibly be dangerous. The moniker conjures visions of sweet little girls running around in pig tails and doggy ears adorned with fluffy hair bands and eye black in soft pink and made of glitter. These teams sat around before the big game braiding each others’ hair and painting their fingernails to match their jerseys. Continue reading The Power of Pride: Part 1
I left teaching – for the second time – about two years ago. I was writing a lot on the blog and for a book, with a couple of other books stewing around between my brain and my husband’s. I was very passionate about my relationship with God and devoted to enriching that with study. I told my co-worker, Misty, that I felt like my job was getting in the way of my work. After praying about it, discussing it, and with the support of my husband, I quit my job in education with full intentions to… “Work full-time for Jesus,” as I responded to all who inquired.
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