Justin Taylor put together a few recent posts by others about the danger of gossip and how to respond to it: Kent Hughes: Gossip involves saying behind a person’s back what you would never say to his or her face. Flattery means saying to a person’s face what you would never say behind his or …

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Someone needs this prayer from Scotty Smith tomorrow. A Prayer for Stewarding Our Anger Well “In your anger do not sin”: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold. Eph. 4:26-27 Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger resides in the lap of …

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A wonderfully constructive and pastoral exhortation from Terry Johnson, who encourages us to remember the four central aspects of a Christian identity: sons, saints, servants, sinners; and how our identity can become dysfunctional when any of these emphasised at the expense of the others. Surely as we attend corporate Christian worship each facet of identity …

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Every month a short devotion by Graham Nicholson is posted on the Hawthorn Presbyterian Church website’s blog page. Here’s the latest: From the moment our alarm clocks jolt us awake in the morning to the last flicker of eyelids as we doze off to sleep, our lives are measured by time. Sometimes we may wish …

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