Tag: hypocrite
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King for a Common Era Holy Week 5
KING jesus! KING jesus! The Prophet who drove the money changers out of God’s Temple HAS RETURNED! Holy Week in the year of our Lord 30 Without noting several significant private events and conversations of this holy week, including Jesus’ celebration of the Passover meal with the Twelve; let’s look once more at the witness…
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The Christian Hypocrite?
Worship & Hypocrisy? The family rushed into the church building catching the last praise song before the sermon. LOVE GOD, LOVE PEOPLE. They applauded. (In fact, they noted, it was the colorful writing imprinted on the wall of the building that confirmed this love.) He loves us. We love Him. Such a general good feeling…
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What’s a Hypocrite to do?
It is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. (It is a Higher calling, though.) It is a higher calling as Jesus pointed out also given to the Pharisees, whose hypocrisy was frequent target of our Lord. We should not think for one instant that we (because we are not Pharisees…
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The Mirror of Hypocrisy
As I left the busy area of the mall wearing my brand new ‘Jesus’ tie I had just purchased as witness to family members far from Christ, I hurried onto the main freeway. Morning traffic was still dense, but I had time to merge; BUT the car in the lane next to the ramp was…
