01.24.2025

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Morning Offering given

Village waking

Coffee good

Today
-Read Job 31 & Psalms 16-18
-RIAY Day 24
-Memory Verse – Matthew 15:11 – It is not what enters one’s mouth that defiles that person; but what comes out of the mouth is what defiles one. Let us make note of Mark 7:18 as well since it also relates to this subject. You might consider noting this on an index card for future reference. He said to them, “Are even you likewise without understanding? Do you not realize that everything that goes into a person from outside cannot defile,

Today we look at our language…content & tone…
Just walking down the street our ears are filled with horrid, disgusting words. Those words are so commonplace they are now used on radio, TV, in the office, in government, and sadly I have heard them in the basement of the church as well. Unfortunately, I have heard them coming from my mouth at different times. More readily when I am with persons who use them, or when frustrated, or when angry, or more sadly to fit in. There was a time when language like that never even entered my thoughts, let alone came out of my mouth. The words were considered so vulgar the use of them hurt the soul. As a teen, I remember a man who came to our house as a vendor. When he drove into the driveway my mother would call to my father saying, “The cursor is here.” Dad would always go out and greet him in the yard. Seldom was he allowed in the house, and if he came in he never made it past the office, and generally mom would close the office door so the conversation never went over the door frame. When our children came home with that language they put money in the swearing jar for each curse word said. Most of them could now purchase a house if that practice was still something they did. We have become a vulgar nation. Perhaps it is time to return to the old-fashioned way of speaking and thinking.

Let’s practice that… no vulgarity and no condescension.

I’m also wanting to know if anyone has used or is familiar with the Echo Prayer App? I need a way to keep track of prayer requests, is was brought to my attention. If you are familiar with it please let me know what you think.

Know you are prayed for.