“You suck.” “No you suck”
Do not rebuke a mocker or he will hate you; rebuke a wise man and he will love you. Proverbs 9:8 So parenting again has laid a golden egg. The most ironic thing that I have found in life is that while I am trying to teach my kids things, I am finding that I really need to learn them myself. There have been several really good personal things, but the biggest thing right now is getting him to listen to correction. The hilarious thing about teaching my son this is that I need to learn this FAR more than he does. The typical reaction that I have to a well placed rebuke or correction whether it comes from my wife, a friend or a direct stranger is to be defensive and often point out the flaws in their character. Conversations like this, especially among Christian men,...
Fair weather friend
In the loving your enemies sermon, the scripture passage from Luke 6:27-36 located here talked about how Christians should love people better then those who aren’t Christians. Recently a friend of mine was going through some tough times and I allowed our communications to go slack. Then as his life starting to turn back toward the good we begin talking more often and I realized I am a fair weather friend. This is the way God loves me, he doesn’t leave me all alone to fend for myself in my time of need (thank goodness). So why is it so easy for me to do.