Humility, by Andrew Murray
“Here is the path to the higher life.  Down, lower down!”  When I first read Andrew Murray’s classic, Humility, as a young man, I wrote in the margin, “PARADOX!”

It strikes me as somewhat odd that Christians should be admonished to think.  Is “non-thinking Christian” not an oxymoron?  Apparently not.  It should be.

(If you’re seeing this on my blog or Facebook and you’re not an adult, don’t waste your time clicking on it and reading it.  There’s nothing here that’s going to be that scintillating.  I wouldn’t post anything on Facebook that is inappropriate for teenagers.  It doesn’t bother me if you do read it – I’m [...]

It seems like every time I read a book, especially lately, I find myself in a critic’s mode.  “This is good.”  “I don’t like that.”  All in the same book.  Sometimes on the same page.
Is that good or bad?  Who am I to be the discerner of truth, the evaluator of what’s good and right?  [...]

I ordered this book to help someone else.  I didn’t expect it to deal with me.
“No one is truly free from attachment,” Gerald May writes on page 40.  His list of addictions is in two parts. 
First, attraction addictions include the obvious – drinking, drugs, sex.  But what about addictions to friends, humor, neatness, pets, [...]