Mutual humility

After I Peter 5:5-7 

We are to be humble 

toward each other.

It’s not about birth,

class, position, wealth, 

or anything else we

measure ourselves

and each other by.

In the age of me,

the age of self,

the age of ego,

it’s countercultural

to be humble

toward each other.

If the measuring

stick is Christ,

we have no choice

but to be humble

toward each other.

 

“The more we experience the gap between reality and what we know to be true, the more we grow closer to God. The more we see the gap between man and God, the more we reach for God.” – Pastor Clay Smith, August. 18, 2024.

 

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Some Friday Readings

 

The mower and the nun – poem by Cameron Brooks at Kingdom Poets (D.S. Martin). 

 

Something Is Wrong: The Nine Contradictions of our Technological Age – Andrew Noble at Something Is Noble. 

 

The Temptation of Christ in Illuminated Manuscripts – Amelia McKee at Art for the Liturgical Year.

 

For God So Loved This Anxious Generation – Sarah Eekhof Zylstra at The Gospel Coalition.

 

Be humble

After I Peter 5:5-7 

It's countercultural.

In a time and place

when we celebrate,

elevate, venerate

youth, dismissing

the aged as over

and done, they’ve

had their day,

confining them

in homes with

their own, safely

put away, out

of harm’s way,

out of our way, 

out of sight, it’s

countercultural

to say, to think,

to act like elders

not only matter

but that we should

also be subject

to them. But that’s

the command: be

subject to them.

 

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Some Sunday Readings

 

The Myth of the Easy Answer – Justin Poythress. 

 

Grow Deep: A Word to Young Men – Greg Morse at Desiring God.

 

March 7 - The Official Day of Rest: Constantine’s Powerful Sunday Mandate – Jason Clark at This Is the Day. 

 

Story of the Seasons: The Countryman’s Notebooks of Adrian Bell – Richard Hawking at Front Porch Republic.