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Not Bullying Others, but Helping Them, Part 3 (TMF:2275)

Friday, January 26, 2024
Peace to Live By: Not Bullying Others, but Helping Them, Part 3 (TMF:2275) - Daniel Litton
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       It’s not manly to cut up others at the potential damage of relationships. I have also witnessed bullying among Christians in the form of sales. We know salespeople can be high pressure at times. Personally, I don’t think it’s ever appropriate for the Christian salesperson to be ‘high pressure.’ I need time to think, as do others, and the Bible calls us to have patience. Most of the time, I don’t make any decision fast. I take my time to think about it. As a matter of fact, I had a Christian working personally for me on a certain project, and he just became too pushy about the business. So, what did I do? Well, I fired him of course. I don’t care how good of a reputation he had had, for me he was too pushy, and he ended up not getting any more of my business as a result. I am a firm believer in that the more a group jokes, the more something is wrong. There shouldn’t be a need for excessive joking, even good natured joking. If you’re part of a Bible study that is full of joking, then something is wrong.

Not Bullying Others, but Helping Them, Part 2 (TMF:2274)

Thursday, January 25, 2024
Peace to Live By: Not Bullying Others, but Helping Them, Part 2 (TMF:2274) - Daniel Litton
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       All this being said, there simply is never a time that we should find ourselves bullying others. This discussion just isn’t for kids, because, unfortunately, as I myself have witnessed more than once, adults can bully as well. Personally, I have witnessed Christians say very derogatory things toward other Christians, and this in public settings, so much so that I wonder how in the world the person could have justified what they just said. I think sometimes it is due to just mere insensitivity and not being ‘careful.’ But at other times I think it is done under the cloak of proper ‘manhood’ (which, by the way, has no place in church or the Christian). It’s not manly to cut up others at the potential damage of relationships. I have also witnessed bullying among Christians in the form of sales. We know salespeople can be high pressure at times. Personally, I don’t think it’s ever appropriate for the Christian salesperson to be ‘high pressure.’

Not Bullying Others, but Helping Them, Part 1 (TMF:2273)

Wednesday, January 24, 2024
Peace to Live By: Not Bullying Others, but Helping Them, Part 1 (TMF:2273) - Daniel Litton
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       We are all aware that bullying occurs in school. Some children are bullied, and some are the ‘actual’ bullies. Bullying in the first place stems from some kind of internal problem. Sometimes the person bullying is just jealous of the other person, and wants what they have. At other times the person has internal conflicts due to problems at home, whatever those problems may be. Still yet, bullying can be done to gain approval of peers, and to try to look good in front of friends by seeing how clever one can be with wordplay and cracking jokes. So, there are a variety of reasons bullying occurs. All this being said, there simply is never a time that we should find ourselves bullying others. This discussion just isn’t for kids, because, unfortunately, as I myself have witnessed more than once, adults can bully as well. Personally, I have witnessed Christians say very derogatory things toward other Christians, and this in public settings, so much so that I wonder how in the world the person could have justified what they just said.

Our Self-Pity Doesn’t Help Us, Part 3 (TMF:2272)

Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Peace to Live By: Our Self-Pity Doesn’t Help Us, Part 3 (TMF:2272) - Daniel Litton
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       Let’s be honest, it can feel good to wallow in self-pity. The problem with that is that self-pity denies the truth. It denies what God has said about us. And by being pitiful, we cannot pursue happiness. We can’t be a victim and be happy at the same time. It is our Old Person, or what we might even call the ‘sin-nature,’ that delights in self-pity. Sure, we can sit around and say, “Life sucks. It’s horrible. See how I just got screwed in this situation. That’s just the way life works.” What the person doesn’t realize, though, is that thinking like this only breeds more thinking ‘like’ this. That is, it causes more negative thinking. And the more negative the thinking, the less the faith. The less the faith, the lesser God’s power flows in our lives. It’s just that simple. We were made to live happy lives, as Christians, but we cannot have any claim to that happiness while clinging to the old ways, the self-pitying ways. What a lot of the self-help teachers have told us then becomes true, that attitude actually is altitude.

Our Self-Pity Doesn’t Help Us, Part 2 (TMF:2271)

Monday, January 22, 2024
Peace to Live By: Our Self-Pity Doesn’t Help Us, Part 2 (TMF:2271) - Daniel Litton
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       The rivers inside our minds start flowing in the right directions, and we have room for positive thoughts. Having come to God, we have relinquished our guilt. In doing that, we have a new identity that isn’t saturated in guilt. So, we’re not a ‘small’ person anymore because God has raised us up. The Bible even says he has seated us with Jesus in Heavenly places. Pretty remarkable. Think about this, and you start to feel even better. That being true, not all Christians come to terms with this truth. All of us have made a decision whether we realize it or not inside of our minds. We have chosen to continue to follow after guilt or we have chosen to begin the process of giving it up, of letting it go. A serious problem for those who don’t wish to give it up is that guilt produces a high—it’s a self-pity high. Let’s be honest, it can feel good to wallow in self-pity. The problem with that is that self-pity denies the truth. It denies what God has said about us. And by being pitiful, we cannot pursue happiness.