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The Truth about Us: The Very Good News about How Very Bad We Are is unavailable, but you can change that!

"I'm not a good person." Seriously, who says that? Practically everyone, from priests to prisoners, thinks of themselves as morally better than average. So why change our minds? What good could possibly come from admitting that most of us are far more self-righteous than righteous? In this book, Brant Hansen makes an entertaining and insightful case that we can find great freedom in...

of our limitations, Vanderbilt points out, on those occasions we call “accidents.”3 We have much to learn. More than we think. No wonder James advises us in the New Testament to “be quick to listen, slow to speak” (James 1:19). There’s another very inspiring verse about our wrongness. It’s in Proverbs. It’s about how we should humbly approach what little we actually know and how our own judgment can be compromised. Notice how, in a nuanced way, it gently, poetically, and very subtly suggests that
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