JOEL 2 GENERATION

I had a convicting thought (thoughts) as I was re-reading Philippians over the past few days. After my message last week on "Death to Self and Living a Life of Humility"  LINK , I had to go back and edit the message (deleting stuff) and adding an Addendum at the end (about 12 minutes) explaining how I let the "sin in others become the sin in me" (to use use a well-known expression from Dan Mohler). While comparing and contrasting the lives of Kanye West and the Catholic nun Cabrini in an appropriate way I believe, I kept going and started naming some other names and being hyper-critical of other ministers and ministries. And it wasn't/isn't that the points I was making about these other ministries wasn't/isn't true. It was that I was NOT speaking about their errors/excesses in the right way. While criticizing their self-exaltation, I was doing so with an elite spirit (PRIDE), all during a sermon on the topic of dying to self and humility. Ugly stuff.

  I wonder if Kanye got the correct "Sign-Up Sheet" when he professed his Christian faith back in 2019. He surely doesn't understand Christianity in 2024. The Catholic nun Cabrini (1850-1917) did get the Biblical "Sign-Up Sheet" and lived a life of radical surrender. The recent movie about her life is a MUST SEE and will inspire any who watch it! No two Christians could be more different than Kanye and Cabrini. Many Christians today are not getting the original "Memo" that Jesus and His Apostle gave to people in the 1st century.  In this podcast, I talk about these foundational Christian teachings/foundations. The Christian life begins with us dying to ourselves and proceeds with a focus on humility before God and towards one another.  LISTEN HERE https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/joel2generation/episodes/2024-04-07T10_40_24-07_00  #deathtoself #selfdeath #humility #kanye #cabrini #kanyewest #francescabrini