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Who can be the greatest? No one. All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. To be the greatest, we need to put on Christ.…

There’s a competitive spirit in most of the leaders I know. I saw mine kick in while running recently… It was 6 AM and already 76 degrees with near 90% humidity. I was casually running, listening to our formal worship pastor Daniel Doss’s song Masterpiece, when out of the corner of my eye I sensed someone trying to pass me. I looked around and it was a girl! She’s the wife and sister of two good friends from college, and a dedicated athlete, so I may have normally been okay with her passing me, but something snapped in me. I said a few nice things and then I gradually picked up speed. I killed myself…but I won! YEA!!! Not that it was a race, and I’m sure she could have taken me had she wanted to, but there was the thrill of victory when I pulled ahead on the road. I have written this before and I know it creates controversy to talk about, but what if we used that competitive spirit in a way that helped grow the Kingdom?…

This writer has been addressing the American people in one form or another for over 40 years. One disheartening matter has followed my writing, and it is a fact that took decades to see.I noticed that when I wrote about the dark sin of abortion, I got quite a few...…