Our self-abnegation is thus not for our own sake but for the sake of others. And thus it is not to mere self-denial that Christ calls us but specifically to self-sacrifice, not to unselfing ourselves but to unselfishing ourselves. Self-denial for its own sake is in its very nature ascetic, monkish. It concentrates our whole attention on self—self-knowledge, self-control - and can therefore eventuate in nothing other than the very apotheosis of selfishness. At best it succeeds only in subjecting the outer self to the inner self or the lower self to the higher self, and only the more surely falls into the slough of self-seeking, that it partially conceals the selfishness of its goal by refining its ideal of self and excluding its grosser and more outward elements. Self-denial, then, drives to the cloister, narrows and contracts the soul, murders within us all innocent desires, dries up all the springs of sympathy, and nurses and coddles our self-importance until we grow so great in our own esteem as to be careless of the trials and sufferings, the joys and aspirations, the strivings and failures and successes of our fellow-men. Self-denial, thus understood, will make us cold, hard, unsympathetic—proud, arrogant, self-esteeming—fanatical, overbearing, cruel. It may make monks and Stoics, it cannot make Christians.
B.B. Warfield

Songs

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Dear John Letter

Oh I used to love you But now that's hard to do 'cause I got some information 'bout the evil things at night that you do Now the whole thing…

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Asleep in The Light

Do you see, do you see All the people sinking down Don't you care, don't you care Are you gonna let them drown How can you be do numb Not…

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Altar Call

You know I can't explain to you Really how he does it But he proved himself to me in such a holy way Such a complete way That I'd die…

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Song to My Parents

I need to say these things cause I love you so And I'm sorry you get angry when I say that you just don't know But there's a heaven waiting…

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Psalm 23

The Lord is my programmer, I shall not crash. He installed His software on the hard disk of my heart, All of His commands are user friendly, His directory moves…

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