Tag: Arete

  • Embrace Your Limp

    Embrace Your Limp

    1 Corinthians 1:26-31 – Remember, dear brothers and sisters, that few of you were wise in the world’s eyes or powerful or wealthy Or high born. when God called you. 27 Instead, God chose things the world considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are wise. And he chose things that are…

  • Hustle, Sabbath, Hustle

    Hustle, Sabbath, Hustle

    Exodus 20:1-17: Then God gave the people all these instructions: 2 “I am the Lord your God, who rescued you from the land of Egypt, the place of your slavery. 3 “You must not have any other god but me. 4 “You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind or an image…

  • Abraham Lincoln Had More Grit Than You

    Abraham Lincoln Had More Grit Than You

    I saw a video yesterday that really stopped me in my tracks.  I will paraphrase the video a bit to help tell the story in an efficient manner.  This man was born in 1809. In 1816 at the age of 7, he was forced to work because his family was expelled. In 1818 he lost…

  • Treat Everyone With Respect

    Treat Everyone With Respect

    1 Timothy 5:1-2: Never speak harshly to an older man, but appeal to him respectfully as you would to your own father. Talk to younger men as you would to your own brothers. 2 Treat older women as you would your mother, and treat younger women with all purity as you would your own sisters.…