Story
Luke 14 opens at a Pharisee’s table where guests are eyeing the good chairs. Jesus tells them to take the lowest place, then tells…
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Luke 14
Story
The Anonymous Reviewer
Account of Sir Walter Scott reviewing Lord Byron
Sir Walter Scott was long considered the leading literary figure in the British Empire. When Lord Byron’s work appeared and its quality was obvious, an anonymous critic in a London paper declared that Scott could no longer be considered the leading poet. The reviewer was later discovered to be Scott himself. The story is unusual because the impulse it resisted is so common: the need to protect one’s own ranking by diminishing another’s.
How you’d preach it
Rare example of a leading figure publicly making room for another’s excellence.
- Humility
- Generosity
- Work
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