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It’s all about You, Jesus
And all this is for You
For Your glory and Your fame
It’s not about me
As if You should do things my way
You alone are God and I surrender
To Your ways

Jesus, Lover Of My Soul
Paul Oakley

Disclaimer: Please forgive the irony of the idea that a blog article should address narcissism.

Noel Paul Stookey (of Peter, Paul, and Mary) once observed that the magazine he remembers from his days as a kid was Life - heck, that covers pretty much everything, he noted. As he got older, a new magazine popped up: People. Still a lot there, but not so all-encompassing. Then a new magazine called Us hit the presses, and now we have a magazine called simply Self. Finally, he mused, he fully expects a new rag to show up in his mailbox any day now titled ME!!!

I think narcissism is the idolatry of our time. (more…)

For God so tolerated the world…

You shall tolerate the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall tolerate your neighbor as yourself.

Greater tolerance has no one than this, that someone lays down his life for his friends.

Tolerate your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.

In 21st-century America, at least, tolerance has superseded love as the greatest of the virtues.

Whatever happened to love? (more…)