February 2006
Welcome to the February Issue of EFW! Stay strong reading your Bible daily, this is our year long goal! Wayne Taylor, pastor of Calvary Fellowship in Seattle, Wash. once said this about the Bible, “This book will keep you from sin, sin will keep you from this book.” Although we obviously can’t be sinless – we are seeking to become more and more like Jesus. This issue is about pride, a grand issue in my life. Putting aside the pride… The world says to love yourself, God says to love others. The world says look out for you, number one, God says to put others first. My pride continually bubbles up within me as a nasty form of self-righteousness. Usually it begins with an internal battle like this, ‘I’m not going to apologize. He/she should apologize to me. It is so ungodly for them to have said/done that to me. No way am I forgiving them until they have apologized. And then he/she needs to make it right, not just words but deeds.’ That’s pretty much me....