The Associated Press: BET founder mimics Va. gov candidate’s speech
Ah… the lost art of the apology! Here we go with a modern version of what passes for an apology:
“I shouldn’t have done it in the manner in which I did and for that I apologize for any offense he, or others, may have taken,” Johnson said.
What is wrong with this apology you might ask?
Well… at first the person who offered the apology seems to acknowledge the offense. But… it is when the apologist uses words like if or may that become the problem. These words provide “wiggle room” or better yet, cover.
A true apology will acknowledge the offensive behavior, period. It will not be couched in terms like “if I offended.” If someone is offended, you offended them! But simply presenting a straw man argument for an apology does not make it a true apology.
A true apology comes from the heart and acknowledges the incorrect, harmful behavior that HAS occurred. The apology needs to further ameliorate that behavior through making amends and restitution.
What passes for an apology these days, is more times not, but only a “hedging of bets” to cover one’s hind-side (just in case it’s needed!)
Really!
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The Judgement Seat…
looking at the judgement seat.
1 cor 3:11-15 2 cor 5:10 rom 14:10-12 1 Thess. 4:14-18 Rom. 14:10-13
sanctified
col 3:24 matt 25:21
unsanctified
1 cor 3:15 matt 25:12
we will see where this leads
1 Corinthians 9:24-27
Cross references:
1 Corinthians 9:24 : Phil 3:14; Col 2:18
1 Corinthians 9:24 : Gal 2:2; 5:7; Phil 2:16; Heb 12:1; 2 Tim 4:7
1 Corinthians 9:25 : 1 Tim 6:12; 2 Tim 2:5; 4:7; Jude 3
1 Corinthians 9:25 : James 1:12
1 Corinthians 9:26 : Heb 12:4
1 Corinthians 9:26 : 1 Corinthians 14:9
1 Corinthians 9:27 : Rom 6:19
1 Corinthians 9:27 : Song 1:6
1 Corinthians 9:27 : Jer 6:30; Rom 1:28; Heb 6:8
2 Timothy 2:5
Cross references:
2 Timothy 2:5 : 1 Cor 9:25
2 Timothy 2:5 : 2 Timothy 4:8
I Cor. 11:31, 32
Col. 3:4
Mark 8:34-38
To judge self is to lose the self-life, and find the Christ-life (Gal. 2:20).
· To judge self is to no longer be self-conscious, but become Christ-conscious (Matt. 28:20).
· To judge self is to no longer be self-controlled, but to become Christ-controlled (Acts 9:6).
· To judge self is to no longer practice self-esteem, but to esteem others better than self (Phil. 2:3). To judge self is to become selfless.
- It is a most humbling thought to know that some day the believer will face all of his works, “good or bad”. Some will be ashamed (1 John 2:28) and “suffer loss” not the loss of salvation, but the loss of rewards
(1 Cor. 3:11- 15). So whatever you do, do it to the glory of God (Col. 3:17).
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CNN.com – MOAB bomb moved to Iraq war region – Apr. 10, 2003
CNN.com – MOAB bomb moved to Iraq war region – Apr. 10, 2003
Does anyone else find this ironic… that this bomb would be used in the middle east?
I know Iran is not Moab… but it was the irony!
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