Leo Percer

On the other hand, the unexamined life is not worth living. Before asking how someone else is "measuring up," why not apply the measuring stick to your own life?

Finding faults with others is easy, it requires little thought and less conviction. Dealing with our own faults is not so easy and requires a bit more effort. The "log" in our eye is usually just too painful, so we turn our attention to the "speck" someone else has.

Hebrews 12:25-29 "Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe; for our God is a consuming fire."

Hebrews 12:25-29 "his expression, 'Yet once more,' denotes the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain."

Hebrews 12:25-29 "And His voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying, 'YET ONCE MORE I WILL SHAKE NOT ONLY THE EARTH, BUT ALSO THE HEAVEN.'"

Hebrews 12:25-29 "See to it that you do not refuse Him who is speaking. For if those did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape who turn away from Him who warns from heaven."

Ray Pritchard writes... When false teachers abound, Preach the Word! In good times and in bad times, Preach the Word! When people listen and when they don’t listen, Preach the Word! (2 Timothy 4:1-5: Preach the Word!)

Ray Pritchard writes... In a world of itching ears, Preach the Word! To a generation gone astray, Preach the Word! In a time of moral crisis, Preach the Word! When people don’t want to hear you, Preach the Word! (2 Timothy 4:1-5: Preach the Word!)

“...f I adopt a superior attitude, forgetting “who made thee to differ? and what hast thou that thou hast not received?” then I know nothing of Calvary love.” Amy Carmichael, If

“If I belittle those whom I am called to serve, talk of their weak points in contrast perhaps with what I think of as my strong points; ...” Amy Carmichael, If

"Next to faith this is the highest art--to be content with the calling in which God has placed you." Martin Luther

Proverbs 22:29—“Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will stand before kings, he will not stand before obscure men.”

The glory of God has a beauty and a danger. It is beautiful beyond compare, and it is dangerous because it will wreck our lives.

yahoo.com/news/articles/… #Trump denies advanced knowledge of Israel's attack, but apparently it is not true. @GOP can do better!

2 Corinthians 10:3-5 "We demolish arguments and every high-minded thing that is raised up against the knowledge of God, taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ."

2 Corinthians 10:3-5 "For although we are walking in the flesh, we do not wage war in a fleshly way, since the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but are powerful through God for the demolition of strongholds."

"I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.” Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“If by doing some work which the undiscerning consider 'not spiritual work' I can best help others, and I inwardly rebel, thinking it is the spiritual for which I crave, when in truth it is the interesting and exciting, then I know nothing of Calvary love.” Amy Carmichael, If

“These and such of these are the symptoms of an evil disease.” A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine

“The tragic results of this spirit is all about us: shallow lives, hollow religious philosophies...the glorification of men, trust in religious externalities....salesmanship methods, the mistaking of dynamic personality for the power of the Spirit.” A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God