Pride (“Weak Links” Week 5)

Today’s topic is possibly the most important one in our lives. C.S. Lewis once wrote that “Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison.” What sin, what weakness is so powerful that lust, anger, greed, and drunkenness would be fleabites next to it? PRIDE. “Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.” Yet we dismiss it so casually! In some areas, we CELEBRATE it. To be clear, there is a massive difference between taking pride in work well done vs. being proud, and today we’ll explain where to draw that line, as well as how and where pride infects us, so we can deal with it at its root.

Scriptures Today: Proverbs 6:16-17 // James 4:6 // Psalm 101:5 // Proverbs 16:8 // Exodus 18:6, 13-24 // Matthew 7:3-5 // Matthew 23:12 // James 4:10 // 1 Peter 5:6

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