civility

What happened to civility? Why is there lack of relational basics? What happened to respect, consideration, patience, kindness? Why do we tolerate bad language and poor behavior? Parents why are you not doing your job? A lack of respect has effected divorce rates, crime and pregnancy outside of marriage. Learning to be polite and considerate of others is minimized in todays children. Its all about me mentality is damning.

Death

"There are two kinds of death—the cessation of life here on earth, and the missed opportunity to live in heaven with God forever. To die physically is to leave our earthly body and our place in the earthly community. To die spiritually, eternally, is to miss eternal residence in heaven with God and his people, to be separated from God forever.

When we die physically, we can be even more alive as we take up residence in God's eternal home with him and his people. It is not pleasant to think of dying physically. But it is devastating to think of missing heaven forever."

judging others

Be careful of judging others
1) when we judge others , God will be harder on us
2) we do many things we condem others for doing- in thought or action
3) we do not know the whole truth
4) judgement reveals contempt for the riches of Gods patience
6) Gods judgeent is always right, ours is tainted by our flesh
7) we risk application of the same judgement to ourself
8) we cannot judge rightously because our sight is hindered by our own sin
9) there is only 1 law giver and judge- God wrote the commands
10) our judgement would have to be completely consistant with Gods

this is in regards to the quick mental and verbal judgement, we make towards another