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4 For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not dwell with you. Psalm 5:4 English Standard Version               Sin is a tricky thing. I find it abhorrent when I see it in someone else; yet, I tend to either overlook or minimize it when I find it in myself. I’ve even used such words and phrases as, “white lie,” or peccadillo to ease my own mind. We all do it, minimizing our failures and maximizing the failures of others. I suppose it is human nature. After all, we want to think well of ourselves and given how the world tends to beat us down I understand. But even taking that into consideration, we often take a lackadaisical attitude towards sin and its results. We buy into the worldly gradation of sin, thinking that as long as I do not commit one of the “biggies,” I’m okay. Nothing could be further from the truth. We would do well to remember that eating the wrong food got Adam and Eve evicted from paradi...

Civility n: formal politeness and courtesy in behavior or speech. 6 Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person. Colossians 4:6 English Standard Version             President Trump in a late-night flurry of postings on social media included a short video that portrayed former President Obama and his wife as apes. After an outcry of outrage, disgust, and disapproval, he had the post removed. While I am glad that he did remove the post, I find it once again exhibits the moral turpitude of the man who holds the highest office in our country. Many of his supporters laud his speech as “telling it like it is” however, his lack of civility…basic decency…displays a lack of self-control and hubris.             Were this a solitary act one might excuse it as a momentary lapse; but, this is only one act in a vast...