“I abused my power,” James Nayler wrote to the Quakers. The year was 1659. Nayler was forty-one years old.
This coloring page takes a lot of patience. (You can leave the spaces marked "7" blank if you want.)
Dear Friends: I have long understood pride as the deadliest sin of seven. I also know that it can be appropriate. Pride is sinful only in the sense of an overweening self-glorification. It characterizes someone who behaves as though he is convinced he is worth more than other people.
Dear Friends: Stand up straight. Those words can sound scolding – or they can sound encouraging. Deciding whether or not to obey directions, we consider the source. We consider whether we think that source cares about our best interests.