Sermons on Divine Discipline

God Humbles the Proud Introduction:  I heard a dumb joke the other day: “What do Atila the Hun, Catherine the Great, and Jack the Ripper have in common.”  Answer:  they all have the same middle name.  Now don’t groan; I warned you it was dumb.  The fact is all these individuals also share a much more important common characteristic:  they were all cruel beyond imagination.  Had you been alive when they were, these individuals would have been the last people on earth you would have expected to…