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                    [Title] => Cleaning house
                    [Summary] => Rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. — 1 Peter 2:1
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                    [Title] => America  imploding
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The Donald Trump brouhaha best illustrates the reason why America is losing it.

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These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. — Matthew 15:8

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In ancient Greek dramas, a person behind a curtain spoke the lines while the performer on stage acted out the role. We might refer to the speaker behind the scenes as one who didn’t "practice what he preached."

This person behind the curtain reminds me of a problem we as Christians experience today. Many of us are skilled at sounding religious, but we don’t put our words into action. This is hypocrisy.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Daily Bread [SectionUrl] => daily-bread [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 260793 [Title] => The hypocrite excuse [Summary] => The rest . . . also played the hypocrite with him. – Galatians 2:13

I have a neighbor who can’t stand hypocrites. In fact, he tells me that he stopped going to church because he saw too many hypocrites there.

He’s not alone. That’s one of the most popular reasons people give for rejecting Christianity. My neighbor is right – there are too many hypocrites in the church.
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– Matthew 23:3


Some opponents of Christianity may not be so much against Jesus as they are against hypocrisy. Ironically, it hasn’t occurred to them that no one was more opposed to hypocrisy than Christ Himself.

We’ve all met scoffers who mindlessly parrot the phrase, "The church is full of hypocrites!" But let’s not be mindless in our response and dismiss such pronouncements without taking heed lest they be true.
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                    [Focus] => 1
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                    [ArticleID] => 1531485
                    [Title] => America  imploding
                    [Summary] => 

The Donald Trump brouhaha best illustrates the reason why America is losing it.

[DatePublished] => 2015-12-10 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136063 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1382205 [AuthorName] => Jerry Tundag [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 568624 [Title] => Agreeing with God [Summary] =>

These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. — Matthew 15:8

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In ancient Greek dramas, a person behind a curtain spoke the lines while the performer on stage acted out the role. We might refer to the speaker behind the scenes as one who didn’t "practice what he preached."

This person behind the curtain reminds me of a problem we as Christians experience today. Many of us are skilled at sounding religious, but we don’t put our words into action. This is hypocrisy.
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I have a neighbor who can’t stand hypocrites. In fact, he tells me that he stopped going to church because he saw too many hypocrites there.

He’s not alone. That’s one of the most popular reasons people give for rejecting Christianity. My neighbor is right – there are too many hypocrites in the church.
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– Matthew 23:3


Some opponents of Christianity may not be so much against Jesus as they are against hypocrisy. Ironically, it hasn’t occurred to them that no one was more opposed to hypocrisy than Christ Himself.

We’ve all met scoffers who mindlessly parrot the phrase, "The church is full of hypocrites!" But let’s not be mindless in our response and dismiss such pronouncements without taking heed lest they be true.
[DatePublished] => 2003-11-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Daily Bread [SectionUrl] => daily-bread [URL] => ) ) )
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