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Ten Ways to Recognize Our Arrogance

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  • Chuck Lawless

Pride and arrogance are the leading factors in causing the fall of many in leadership positions. This article identifies ten ways of recognizing your arrogance.

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Ten Things You Should Know about Pride and Humility from Jonathan Edwards

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  • Sam Storms

What is pride? What is humility? How do you know if you are proud or humble? Here are ten things that Jonathan Edwards had to say about pride and humility. 

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Preaching the Moral Law: ''But … you Mustn't Blame Yourself"

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  • Geoff Thomas

What happens when sin is turned into a disease? This article answers this question by looking at what happened to the seven deadly sins – lust, gluttony, anger, envy, sloth, and pride. 

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The Kryptonite Within

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  • Patrick Darrin

Pride can motivate you to be a hero, but it can also demotivate you not to be one. How? Pride has many faces. This article explains four of them.

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There are only two kinds of men: the righteous, who believe themselves sinners, and the rest, sinners who believe themselves righteous. Blaise Pascal
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Clothing Yourself in Humility Will Please Christ and Bring You Happiness

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  • Randy Alcorn

This article considers the virtue of humility, which is the opposite of pride. It shows the folly of pride, and the joy that humility brings.

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Take Heed to Your Attitude to Ministry: Fighting Pride

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  • Joel R. Beeke

Pride is an enemy to the ministry because it is an attack on God. This article shows the different faces of pride and how a minister can fight pride.

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Help for Perfectionists

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  • Julie Ganschow

This article notes that perfectionists have a pride problem, and struggle with fear and anger. It offers counsel on how to deal with perfectionism by means of the gospel.

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Pride Will Have a Fall

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  • H. Hofman

How can Christians fight against the sin of pride? This article answers this question by defining pride, pointing to its dangers, showing its source, and making a call to fight it.

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The Sin That Hides behind Piety

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  • Silverio Gonzalez

What is the greatest stumbling block to pursuing holiness? It is pride. Pride makes you blind to the real problem.

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Christian Leadership Part 4: The Humble Servant, Part 2

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  • David P. Murray

This article is addressed to pastors, discussing the pastoral danger of pride and overconfidence. The author talks about what it means to be a humble servant of your flock.

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Christian Leadership Part 3: The Humble Servant, Part 1

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  • David P. Murray

This article is addressed to pastors, discussing the pastoral danger of pride and overconfidence. The author talks about what it means to be a humble servant of your flock.

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Hidden Idols: Unseating the Idol of Pride

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  • Hershael York

This article exposes the idol of pride, which is the ultimate secret sin, and explains how to overcome pride.

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In Praise of PRAISE

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  • Raymond Roth

Is praising others dangerous? Will it fuel pride? This article shows from Scripture both when to praise others and how to respond to praise. Regarding the latter, the author explains that praise should fuel our gratitude to God.

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Our Besetting Sin

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  • C. S. Lewis

The chief cause of all misery is pride. It was through pride that the devil became the devil. Pride is enmity between man and man and enmity to God.

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The Prideful Pursuit of Humility

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  • Greg Wilson

It is only in Christ that the fight against pride and self-doubt can be won. Why? For in Christ we gain humility.

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The Normalization of Pride

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  • Russell D. Moore

Has the ministry normalized pride? How can that be? The article shows how a culture that is full of self-exaltation can make it difficult to see pride in ministry.

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Humbling Hezekiahs

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  • Andrew Kerr

Pride is an enemy to pastoral ministry and leadership. From the life of Hezekiah in 2 Kings 20:12-19, 2 Chronicles 32:24-31, and Isaiah 39:1-8 this article shows the dangers of pride, its workings, and how to crucify it.

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Killing Envy

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  • Nicholas T. Batzig

Do you struggle with envy? Did you know that the root of envy is pride? This article offers several ways in which to put to death the sin of envy: know who you are in Christ, remember God's promises, thank God for the gifts of others, learn from the gifts and accomplishments of others, and be content with however God is pleased to use you.

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God’s Hatred of Pride

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  • Garry Eriks

God hates pride. This is the truth expressed in Proverbs 6:16-17. This article explains how pride expresses itself in its relationship with God and neighbour. The author points to the need of repenting of all pride.

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Pride Vs. Humility

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  • Gary Ricucci, Betsy Ricucci

What is one of the greatest hindrances to fellowship in marriage? Pride. This article contrasts pride with humility in marriage.

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Isaiah 57:14-15 – Clearing the Way

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  • Al Baker

This article discusses the sin of pride through the lens of Isaiah 57:14-15.

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I’m Better Than You

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  • Tim Challies

Pride seeks to make people conform to you because you think you are better than them. This article expands on this.

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God Hates Pride

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  • Tim Challies

Did you know that God does not only love? God hates too. Pride evokes the hatred of God. This article explains.

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A Sin That Threatens Calvinists: Spiritual Pride

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  • Solano Portela

Spiritual pride is harbouring the thought that one possesses a superior vision. In showing how this pride has taken different forms throughout church history, this article makes plain that this is the danger facing Calvinists. It can be avoided by giving God all credit for the truth received.

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How We Rebuke Pride

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  • David Lipsy

This article shows how the mindset of living under the cross, getting help from others and God, and acknowledging that all we have is given to us by God, is crucial for fighting pride.

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The Christian's Duty of Praise and Thanksgiving

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  • Arthur Miskin

The sin of ingratitude is fuelled by pride. In this article some help is offered as to what to do when you feel ungrateful to God. As a Christian you are called to praise and be thankful to God always.

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A Just War

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  • Joel R. Beeke

From Matthew 23, this article shows how one can fight the sin of pride—pride of knowledge, accomplishment, and reputation.

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Arrogance and Strife

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  • William MacLeod

The greatest threat to unity among believers is pride and arrogance, asserts the article. Looking at some biblical figures it shows how this is true.

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Humility in Affliction

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  • Daniel Kleyn

It is a given that, in one way or another, every Christian will face affliction for the sake of Christ. This is so because God’s hand directs such afflictions. This article shares way to respond in a godly way in times of suffering. Pride and the way it manifests itself causes one respond wrongly to affliction. However, humility and acknowledging God characterize a proper response.

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The Meekness Required in the Servant of God (2)

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  • Russell J. Dykstra

Humility is crucial for the making of the minister. These two articles define meekness and highlight the dangers of pride. Here the author discusses how meekness is obtained, and how it is a blessing to the pastor.

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The Meekness Required in the Servant of God (1)

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  • Russell J. Dykstra

Humility is crucial for the making of the minister. These two articles define meekness and highlight the dangers of pride. Here the author stresses the importance of meekness in the life of the pastor.

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The Management of Our Pride

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  • Maurice Roberts

This article looks at pride, and the need to continue growing in the likeness of Christ.

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The Seven Deadly Sins in a Digital Age: Pride

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  • Bradford W. Littlejohn

This article looks at the seven deadly sins in the context of our digital age. The author shows how pride flows from self-love and admiration. Individuals can fight against this vice by cultivating a life that is dependent on God.

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Evangelical Reunion: Dealing With Our Attitudes

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  • John M. Frame

Steps to overcoming denominationalism and working towards church unity can be taken when denominations learn to deal with their attitudes towards one another. Pride, contentiousness, envy, harshness, xenophobia, immaturity, anger, ambition, and party spirit are attitudes that hinder unity.

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Christmas – Glory and Shame

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  • Marc Jagt

This article is about the glory and the shame of Christmas. Pride of man and the incarnation of Jesus Christ is also discussed.

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Criticism: Receiving It

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  • Ronald L. Cammenga

This article is about accepting criticism, and the danger of our pride in receiving correction.

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Can we Talk? Can we Listen to Each other?

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  • Russell J. Dykstra

This article is about communication in the church. The author looks at differences in the church, listening and our convictions, pride, and suspicions in the church.

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When Good Men Fall

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  • Maurice Roberts

This article is about falling into sin and the main cause of our fall: pride. The author also discusses the Christian's comfort when he fell into sin.

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Pride and Our Idol Factories: The Disturbing Relationship between Pride and Idolatry

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  • Wes L. Bredenhof

This article looks at the relationship between pride and our making of idols. The dangers of pride for our relationship with God is discussed.This article has to do with the second commandment. The author also discusses a godly pride.

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God Has Allotted to Each a Measure of Faith

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  • John Piper

We should never think too highly of ourselves. Humility befits believers. The remedy for pride is to take serious the fact that our faith is a gift of God alone through His Holy Spirit.

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Pride and the Reformed Churches

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  • Ian Hamilton

This article is about church and pride, and exclusiveness in the church.

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Handling Discouragement - Part 1

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  • Joel R. Beeke

These two articles are about handling pessimism and criticism in ministry. Pride as a danger for the minister is also discussed, as well as the self-watch and self-denial of the minister. These two articles also focuses on encouragement for the ministry.

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The Lord Alone Will be Exalted: Making War on Pride

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  • John Piper

What does God think about pride? This article discusses the nature of pride and its remedy.

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A Christian’s enlightened conscience is his sense of obligation to God. William Hendriksen
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