The ‘No Cussing Club’ January 29, 2009
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Y’all should check this out:
This club started by a 14 year old boy is a fantastic wave of maturity and decency in the world. I was surprised that the site was rated as ‘untrustworthy’ by one of the internet rating thing-a-majigs on my PC and I can only presume that the rating function (which is fueled users) reflects a societal attitude toward decency.
Check it out, give it your support. If you are a young person or have children of your own, I suggest getting involved.
Pride and getting the ‘beam’ out… April 8, 2006
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I was just reading through some blogs that I try to visit frequently and read a post by Casey at "Just So You'll Know", in which he talks about Church discipline and 'getting the beam out of your own eye…" and it's connection with the sin of pride.
As a card-carrying practitioner of the sinful pride brigade, I think his treatise tied together 'the beam' and pride extremely well. Read the post and let him (and me) know your thoughts.
If after we have resolved our own feelings concerning an offense and we find that one of the two conditions warranting discipline exist then the next requisite step is to “cast the beam out of thine own eye”. The beam and the splinter are an analogy Jesus used to illustrate the disparity between the sin of one who commits an offense and one who would rebuke him from a heart filled with pride. The beam in this analogy is nothing less than pride in any manifestation. The rest of the story…
