Humility: True Greatness (audio)
Overview
Be transformed by Christ’s example “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”—1 Peter 5:5 a battle rages within every one of us every day. It’s the clash between our sense of stubborn self-sufficiency and God’s call to recognize that we’re really nothing without him. It’s pride versus humility. And it’s a fight we can’t win without looking repeatedly to Christ and the cross.
C.J. Mahaney raises a battle cry to daily, diligently, and deliberately weaken our greatest enemy (pride) and cultivate our greatest friend (humility). His thorough examination clarifies misconceptions, revealing the truth about why God detests pride and turns his active attention to the humble. Because pride is never passive, defeating it demands an intentional attack. The blessing that follows is God’s abundant favor “Given pride’s pervasive presence in my life, I come to this book in holy fear, yet inspired by God’s promises to be humble and sobered by his warnings to the proud (Isaiah 66:2b, 1 Peter 5:5b).
Scripture reveals to us that, while pride was the first and most serious sin, God is decisively drawn to humility and is specifically supportive of the humble. Only Christ has fully obeyed Isaiah 66:2b (“This is the one I esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, and trembles at my word”), yet He did so as our representative! How marvelous that in our daily battle against pride we can rely on God’s grace, through the gospel, and thus bring honor and glory to God.”—C.J. Mahaney
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- Provides helpful insight into how to reduce egomania and encourage humility
- Addresses the biblical stance on humility in opposition to the culturally “accepted sin”
- Points to a cross-centered worldview that transforms every dimension of life
- Part I: Our Greatest Friend, Our Greatest Enemy: The Battle of Humility Versus Pride
- The Promise of Humility
- The Perils of Pride
- Part II: The Great Reversal: Our Savior and the Secret of True Greatness
- Greatness Redefined
- Greatness Demonstrated
- As Each Day Begins
- As Each Day Ends
- For Special Focus
- Identifying Evidences of Grace
- Encouraging Others
- Inviting and Pursuing Correction
- Responding Humbly to Trials
- A Legacy of Greatness
- Title: Humility: True Greatness (Unabridged)
- Authors: C. J. Mahaney, Sean Runnette
- Publishers: christianaudio, Multnomah
- Print Publication Date: 2009
- Logos Release Date: 2015
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Audio
- Subject: Humility
- Resource ID: LLS:HMLTYTRGRNBRDGD
- Resource Type: Media
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T15:49:42Z
C.J. Mahaney leads Sovereign Grace Ministries in its mission to establish and support local churches. He served as pastor of Covenant Life Church in a Maryland suburb of Washington, D.C., for 27 years and is author of The Cross-Centered Life, Christ Our Mediator, and Sex, Romance, and the Glory of God: What Every Christian Husband Needs to Know.
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