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Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?

Bill Maher

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.

Bruce Crampton

Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.

Diana Black

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

Muhammad Iqbal

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

Northrop Frye

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

Robert Anton Wilson

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

Sigmund Freud

The rewards go to the risk-takers, those who are willing to put their egos on the line and reach out to other people and to a richer, fuller life for themselves.

Susan RoAne

Business rapes relationships. It substitutes shallow frenzy for deep friendship. It feeds the ego but starves the inner man. It fills a calendar but fractures a family. It cultivates a program that plows under priorities. Many a church boasts about its active program: "Something for every night of the week for everybody." What a shame! With good intentions the local assembly can create the very atmosphere it was designed to curb.

Dr. Charles Swindoll

412. Three Day Stay

Humor

Stories about the monumental ego of the late French Premier Charles DeGaulle are legion. My favorite-which could be attributed to any other strong personality as well-has DeGaulle calling the Vatican to inquire about the possibility of being buried in the Holy Sepulchre. "Yes, you can be buried there." replied the Vatican, "but it will cost you one hundred million dollars." DeGaulle replied, "One hundred million dollars-just to stay there for three days?"

413. The Love Cloud

Mark 9:2-9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... quests for power and prestige, status and competition. Fear drives avoidance and bias of people who are different from those we are used to being with. Fear drivespeople to treat others with disdain. Fear of loss, fear of change, fear of others through envy, jealousy, or ego are almost always responsible for our inability to love on a universal and deeply human basis. But as Jesus showed us from his own ministry, love, true love comes from God. And if we want to be lovers of humanity, we must first be in ...

414. Heaven

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

Will Willimon

... yet more to be said. And heaven, because it is heaven, is about much, much more. For Christians, heaven is where Christ is. Heaven is that time, that place when we are one with Christ, when he is our all in all and we are his, all of us. Our egos, so anxiously seeking the fulfillment of desire, are at last overwhelmed by having our hearts' true desire met in Christ. I would expect that we shall feel some sense of pain, at how puny and silly have been so many of our desires that have occupied our hearts here ...

415. Not Gullible; But Skeptical

John 20:19-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... is no joke. Ricky Jay was a famous magician. He was considered by many magicians to be the best sleight-of-hand artist in the world. In an interview with 60 Minutes, Jay said, “the ideal audience would be [a group of] Nobel Prize winners . . . They often have an ego with them that says, ‘I am really smart so I can’t be fooled.’ No one,” says Ricky Jay, “is easier to fool.” (2) That’s interesting. No one is easier to fool than a really smart person. So those of you who raised your hand to the ...

416. Proclaiming Death

1 Corinthians 11:26

Sermon

Will Willimon

... better moments, I know this to be a lie. My sin may be petty, banal, but it is not inconsequential. My actions, even the best of them, arise from mixed motives. Self-interest infects all I do. Even my love is often an extension of my inflated ego. Dare I gaze in the mirror of truth for more than a moment? I even stand on the bathroom scales fully clothed! There are moments. Carlyle Marney, Baptist prophet, told about the day his wife Elizabeth bid him farewell as he was leaving for some speaking engagement ...

417. Jesus' Temptation

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

Will Willimon

... he will go ahead and be God. This Messiah is neither inclusive nor pliable. If he would go on and save us, he must first be first able to hold out against us and our demands He will go ahead and be a real God, not some projection of our egos. Not our will but thine be done. Don't just do something, Jesus, stand there. Stand there for us, faithful even when we are not, true to scripture. Be the God for us we don't deserve and didn't ask for. Despite us, don't just do something, stand ...

418. Being Good

Matthew 5:17-20

Sermon

Will Willimon

... m doing the best I can. What right has Jesus or anyone else to tell me what I should do? Such antinomianism arises not out of an appreciation for the limits of the Law but rather out of a lack of appreciation for any limits upon my own ego. At least the scribes and the Pharisees studied God's law, pondering its implications for their lives. We have no object for study other than our own feelings. Against such modem parochialism, Jesus slams these demands for a higher righteousness. He refuses to back off in ...

419. God Think

Mark 8:27-38

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... or disparaging, what I need to do to bring God’s plan to fruition. In other words, your petulance right now is a stumbling stone to my mission. How that must have stung! That Shepherd’s rod must have stung not only Peter’s pride but his ego. We don’t hear another word for a while from Peter, who I imagine in that moment realized his error and quietly in humility and deference, got behind his Lord. Would he have other moments when his own desires and imaginings for a future kingdom would look ...

420. It Helps If You Laugh

John 15:9-17

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... but they will never be good baby-sitters or teachers. They will never replace the loving touch of a mother or a father. Because that human touch gives strength, courage and faith. At times it offers healing and comfort. It soothes the skinned knee and the bruised ego. At other times it might offer the well placed hand of discipline on the backside of a problem. But the human touch that is always given in love is a beautiful form of communication needing no words. It's fantastic to see kids want to share ...

421. If It Helps You Laugh

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

422. Moving Heaven and Earth

Acts 16:16-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... that touched our life. It’s not our ability that God uses to mend broken lives—it’s our faithfulness. As Norwegian theologian Ole Hallesby puts it, “Only he who is helpless can truly pray.” (3) Only when we are helpless do we lay down our ego and rely entirely on the mercy of God. Don’t be intimidated by the fact that others are listening to you. People don’t get comfort and hope from your adequacy. In fact, the opposite is usually true. Your inadequacy, your helplessness, offered up in faith ...

423. Finding Your Place

Romans 12:1-12

Sermon

Will Willimon

... caught between the tension to, on the one hand, make something out of ourselves, to “stick out,” be somebody and, on the other hand, to avoid isolation, go with the flow, find our place of security within the crowd, whereby we might attach our fragile egos to something greater than ourselves. So we join clubs, wear neckties, put stickers on our bumpers, membership cards in our wallets. When I was in college, I was stopped by a patrolman on a straight, deserted stretch of highway in South Carolina. To my ...

424. A VIP Seat

Luke 14:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... this was to Jesus? And how sad? The King of Kings and Lord of Lords is standing on the outskirts of this crowd watching them compete for the seat closest to the prominent Pharisee. What could the best seat in the house get them? An ego boost. A fleeting sense of importance. The envy of the other guests. Shallow, vain, temporary pleasures. But what could Jesus offer them? Knowledge of God, eternal life, unending love, unspeakable joy, unquenchable peace. That seat next to the dinner host doesn’t look so ...

425. The Last Coca Cola in the Desert

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... ) This is the point where most of us walk away. This is the point where we retreat into our comfortable lives and miss out on the joy of confession and repentance. “Have you cried about it?” We avoid brokenness as much as possible. We try to protect our ego, our image, our self-sufficiency as much as possible. “I’m a good person, especially compared to them! Look at all the good things I’ve done. Look at how I’ve played by the rules.” We’re still trying to earn God’s approval. And there is ...

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Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?

Bill Maher

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.

Bruce Crampton

Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.

Diana Black

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

Muhammad Iqbal

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

Northrop Frye

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

Robert Anton Wilson

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

Sigmund Freud

The rewards go to the risk-takers, those who are willing to put their egos on the line and reach out to other people and to a richer, fuller life for themselves.

Humor

Mark 9:2-9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

414. Heaven

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

Will Willimon