Rebuilding Broken-down Walls

Proverbs 25;28 says “A person without self-control is like a city with broken down walls.”   There’s something about the simplicity and power of this verse that deeply resonates with me. I’ve always loved the idea that we as believers are referred to, several times, as a city in the Bible. That symbol of fortified…

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Control Yourself

There’s something defeating about not being able to control yourself. This goes for anger, lust, words spoken in haste (for whatever reason), self-pity, any of those carnal desires harbouring in our hearts. Truly, we’re either mastered by our emotions, appetites, the circumstances around us or we are centred in who we are in Christ, knowing our…

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