Secret Giving

DAILY READING Matthew 23:8-28 REFLECTION Overcoming Hypocrisy By Elaine Pierce In Michael Hallsworth's well-regarded book, The Hypocrisy Trap, he breaks hypocrisy into four categories: * Inconsistency (failing to practice what you preach), * Pretence (faking beliefs you don't hold), *Blame (condemning others for actions you do), and * Complacency (talking about values without taking action) This book's subtitle is interesting: how changing what we criticize can change our lives. Who...

DAILY READING Philippians 1:12-14, 19-26 REFLECTION Prison Joy By Elaine Pierce Paul wrote this letter to the believers in Philippi a dozen or so years after he founded the church in this city, an important Roman colony in northern Greece. And where was Paul when he wrote this? In prison, or as Paul put it, "in chains for Christ" (v. 12)." And what is one of the results of his unjust imprisonment? "Because of my chains, most of the brothers in the Lord have been encouraged to speak the word...