The tongue is directly involved in the sins of profanity, bigotry, boasting, criticism, complaining, slander, gossip, lies, coarse joking, blasphemy, sarcasm-the list goes on! To tame the tongue is a tough challenge for us since we live in a world of awful verbal pollution.
The book of James has a great deal to say about the importance of controlling the tongue. If we don’t resort to profanity, even though we don’t make an issue of it, others notice and we eventually gain credibility and a right to be heard. Today it’s, “Speaking from the heart.” We probably can’t do much to reverse the trend but as followers of Christ we do have a golden opportunity to be distinctive in the way we speak. I was told in high school that the use of profanity was an indication of a poor vocabulary. While it’s considered hate speech to use racial or gender slurs, the use of the name of God or Jesus in vain is dismissed with a shrug. To me, it’s another sign of the moral decay that is eroding the foundation of our country. Really? Is it not possible to speak from the heart without using the f bomb or resorting to gross profanity? While I’m thankful for the unified and determined spirit that is evident in Boston, I’m disappointed in the vulgarity that has become commonplace in movies, rap music, literature and everyday conversation.Īnyone who attends a college football game, drives in heavy traffic or sits in a college classroom is aware of the increase in profanity that has somehow become totally acceptable in America. Genachowsk later stated that the FCC would not censure Ortiz because after all, “He was speaking from the heart.” You will “For no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit, for each tree is known by its own fruit.A few hours later David Ortiz got a supportive tweet from Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski. Every tree will be revealed by the quality of fruit that it produces.
And rotten fruit doesn’t hang on a good, healthy tree. For figs are not picked from t “You’ll never find choice fruit hanging on a bad, unhealthy tree. For each tree is known and identified by its own fruit. A good man brings good th For there is no good tree which produces bad fruit, nor, on the other hand, a bad tree which produces good fruit. People do not pick figs from thornbushes, or grapes from briers. Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor “No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. For there is no good tree that bringeth forth corrupt fruit nor again a corrupt tree that bringeth forth good fruit. People don’t gather figs from thornbushes, and they don’t get grapes from bushes.
For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble b “A good tree does not produce bad fruit, nor does a bad tree produce good fruit. For every tree is known by his own fruit. Figs are never gathered from thornbushes, and grapes are not picked from bramble bushe For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor d “A good tree can’t produce bad fruit, and a bad tree can’t produce good fruit. It’s who you For there is no good tree which produces bad fruit, nor, on the other hand, a bad tree which produces good fruit.
You must begin with your own life-giving lives. The health of the apple tells the health of the tree. Luke 6:43-45 “You don’t get wormy apples off a healthy tree, nor good apples off a diseased tree.
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