Nathan W. Bingham

that was preached or a memorial that was written up in a journal or something after they died.

And over and over and over, I saw the same word, gentleman.

He was a gentleman.

I'm not quite sure when we started frowning upon such a description, but that's a good thing, to be a gentleman, to be a gentlewoman.

We contend, but we aren't contentious.

Second, we contend without being conceited.

Pride has no place in the Christian.

I think it's the ugliest thing on planet Earth is a Christian filled with pride.

How can that be?

Saved by grace.

Grace.

Whatever I am, I am by grace.

Whatever I know, I know by grace.

Whatever I've come to understand, I understand by grace.

And so we don't look down with disdain upon those that we engage with when we contend for the faith.

We understand that all that we have is by grace.

Often on mornings, a lot of mornings, when I'm shaving in the morning, I will stare in the mirror at myself and I repeat the same line to myself.

I say, Jason, you just aren't that important.

While you were sleeping, the Lord held together planet Earth and all the universe fine without you.

You're not that important.