is admitting we are powerless to change ourselves. Verrry radical message for Christians. Opposite of what we traditionally hear in...

where no one else can see how self-absorbed we are, working hard to project humility and graciousness -- outer goodness, so we'll appear...

is my forte. I love solving easy problems. Thing is, the tough/complicated problems cause me to obsess over solutions, which brings...

for us Christians. Pride, not humility. We dowannabe faith-wimps. Dowanna FAIL at trusting Jesus for the harrrd, the scary, the...

ASSESSing myself, my circumstances, and others, using my human-wisdom. This constant assessing of everyone and everything has been a...

1. Thankful for uncertainty -- NOT KNOWing what to do next. 2. Thankful for the harrrd circumstances necessary for retraining in...

when I'm striving in the Spirit, or striving in the flesh (human-wisdom)? Following the Spirit's agenda, or my human-wisdom's agenda? ...

Pseudo-faith might help me ENDURE hard circumstances -- I don't expect relief, though my human-wisdom WANTS relief. I suck it up. ...

and I think I need an encouraging development, that's NEVER what I need. Encouragement is what my human-wisdom wants -- so it has HOPE...

We're all bad Christians, because there's a dark side -- sinful side, to EVERYthing we do or think. We live in denial of how bad we are,...