Pride Made Simple

"Pride goes before the fall." You have heard the saying all your life. This book shows you the spiritual law behind it, straight from God's Word.

Pride is the one sin God names with a personal verb: He *opposes* the proud. Not a bad habit. Not a personality flaw. The posture that sets a human heart against its Maker, the same rebellion that cast Lucifer out of heaven and drove Adam and Eve out of Eden. But the same God who opposes the proud *gives grace to the humble* — and that promise is the doorway this book walks you through.

Across 14 Scripture-first chapters, Kimani Upshur, M.Ed., traces pride from heaven's first rebellion to the garden, from Nebuchadnezzar's palace roof to Haman's gallows, from the Pharisee's resume-prayer to the tax collector's seven-word confession. Then he turns to the answer: Jesus Christ, who made Himself nothing and took the nature of a servant; the towel and the basin on the night before the cross; the call to clothe yourself with humility, honor others above yourself, confess quickly, and trust the Father's timing for the lifting.

Each chapter opens with Scripture and ends with one concrete action step, so this is not just a book you read — it is a book you practice. A 14-question appendix gives straight answers on pride and humility: the difference between humility and low self-esteem, how to receive correction, how to apologize when pride makes it feel impossible, whether success and humility can coexist, and what God promises the humble.

Written plainly, grounded entirely in the Bible, and explicitly Trinitarian — prayer to the Father, through Jesus Christ the Son of God and Son of Man, by the Holy Spirit. No pop psychology, no self-help techniques, no moralizing. Just God's Word, God's Son, and God's grace for the lowly heart.

Humbled. Honest. Lowly. The fall is avoidable. The grace is waiting.

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