2009-09-20T18:40:23-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/judging/ http://delveintojesus.com/Devotionals/39/Loving-the-Sinner.aspx 2009-09-20T18:40:23-05:00 As Christians, what should our response be when we discover that someone in our congregation has an ongoing problem with sin? Perhaps they're having an affair, or they've been arrested numerous times for drug possession. What is the appropriate course to take? This devotional takes a close look at Jesus' teaching on the subject, and explains what every Christian should do when a fellow believer is struggling with sin. http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%207:1-3&version=31 2009-08-06T09:30:42-05:00 Why do people spend so much time judging others, when they have plenty of their own faults they should be worried about? Jesus' famous caution to focus on our own behavior, rather than obsessing over other people's flaws. http://sermonindex.net/modules/articles/index.php?view=article&aid=835 2008-01-08T09:27:17-05:00 Included in the sins of pride, which God treats especially severely, are the sins of criticizing and judging. "God opposes the proud" (I Pet. 5: 5). Even if a person believes in Jesus, if at the same time, he persists in judging others God is not for him. Then God has to be against him. But it would http://sermonindex.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=21262&forum=34&0 2008-01-03T11:53:02-05:00 That the influence be upon the will or heart, not on the imagination, nor on the speculative understanding or thought processes of the mind, even if these processes sweep the emotions along with them as a consequence. That the disturbance in their thinking not be excessive, in that their thinking is