Weekend Review: Gotham Central Book Three: On the Freak Beat

A weekend light reading review…because Pastors also need a break from heavy theological reading.

Greg Rucka and Ed Brubaker.  Gotham Central Book Three: On the Freak Beat. New York, NY: DC Comics, September 15th 2009. 224 pp.

3 out of 5

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This is the third volume in the “Gotham Central” series, which feature stories of the police and detectives in the make-believe city of Gotham where many of the Batman stories takes place.  Following several members of the Major Crimes Unit, or MCU for short, we see these men and women also tackling on the “freaks,” who are the supervillains that Batman has to battle (hence the book’s subtitle).

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Biblical Counseling: The Danger of Comparison

The Danger of Comparison

Selected Scriptures

 

Establish the need: Have you recently been shackled and miserable in comparing yourself to others?

Purpose: Today we shall look at four points to help us think more biblically about comparison of others so that we would think biblically and also have the grace of God to deal with ungodly comparison.

1. Scripture talks about the problem of comparison
2. Beware of thinking all comparison is bad
3. Know the kinds of comparisons that are dangerous
4. Fight ungodly comparison biblically

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