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    Humility: True Greatness
    Humility: True Greatness
    Humility: True Greatness
    Audiobook3 hours

    Humility: True Greatness

    Written by C.J. Mahaney

    Narrated by Sean Runnette

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    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
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChristianAudio.com
    Release dateJul 1, 2009
    ISBN9781596447905
    Humility: True Greatness
    Author

    C.J. Mahaney

    C. J. Mahaney is the senior pastor of Sovereign Grace Church of Louisville. He has written, edited and contributed to numerous books, including Proclaiming a Cross-Centered Theology; Don't Waste Your Sports; and Sex, Romance, and the Glory of God. C. J. and his wife, Carolyn, are the parents of three married daughters and one son, and the happy grandparents to twelve grandchildren.

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    • 5/5
      This book reminds us that no accomplishment has come by our own effort, but instead it has all been given to us by the grace of God. To God be all glory, and do not allow room for pride in our lives.
    • 5/5
      Thank you Jesus for this profound books,! It gave me great practical methods to use and reflect upon! It is life changing! Helped iMe in countless ways!
    • 5/5
      This is a short but convicting book. It was required reading for one of my husband's seminary courses this last semester. When he was finished he left it on my desk to read. I wish I had read it 14 years ago when we first entered the ministry - or at least 8 years ago when he surrendered to full time Pastorate. But then God's timing is perfect and maybe at that time I was not ready for such a sincere and convicting book. This is one that will truly make you stop and take a look at your life, your motives, your thoughts, and your Christian walk. Paired with a powerful sermon that was preached at a conference recently this message has been hard to forget!
    • 5/5
      A really helpful manual on the theme of humility.
    • 5/5
      Humility True Greatness, C.J. Mahaney, Multnomah, 2005, 174 pages.C.J. Mahaney wrote a deceptively small book that is packed with a fantastic amount of truth in it. Truth that will cut to the bone and to the heart, every page confronts the reader with the reality that humility is not a heart beat that any of us have in ourselves naturally.Despite this reality, Mahaney writes a book that first creates a desire in the readers heart to grow in humility, and to put to death pride. The entire first section of the book is all about that very issue: Humility vs. Pride. On page 29 a wonderful quote from John Stott does a great job of describing this battle; “At every stage of our Christian development and in every sphere of our Christian discipleship, pride is the greatest enemy and humility our greatest friend.”The book continues into a study on Jesus Christ and the example of perfect humility that he was and is for us. From there Mahaney heads for the heart. The final section of the book is a chapter by chapter run through a variety of steps and practises we can take in our lives to develop humility. Not that developing it can be a pursuit that we can take pride in, that would defeat the purpose of humility all together!This is a book I would HIGHLY RECOMMEND to everyone and anyone!
    • 5/5
      Excellent book with "rubber meets the road" value on the subject. Read through it in a day. Jesus really did turn the world upside down for his followers. Want to be great? Be Humble. A definite re-read.
    • 5/5
      Great read. Very applicable to everyday life and living in submission to Christ. I read it on a plane to Thailand.