Honeybee88

I practice Hakko Ryu Jujutsu. I am a brown belt. The biggest plus of my class is that my sensei is a Christian, and doesn't bring in any of the eastern false religious junk. Yes, we bow to the sensei at the beginning of class, but as the other person said, it is a sign of respect, and what we say in Japanese means 'please teach me.' We also have begun bowing to Jesus first, which I like alot. I may be biased, but our art brings together the best of all the others, and is the finest of them all. One aspect of Hakko Ryu is that we learn Shiatsu. I'm sure some have heard of it. It is much like acupuncture in principle, but instead of needles, the fingers are used to perform healing using the lines in the body.

You could ask for advice on how to speak to someone about that problem, but if you said who it was, then it would be gossip. Our speech is to build up others, not tear them down or malign them.

Sometimes it makes me sick to see the feeding frenzy of gossip that surrounds celebrities as well. And just because Obama is a public figure does not mean that talk of him can not ever be gossip. Our speech is to build up, not tear down. Colossians 4:6: "Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man."

Where I work, we design our own nametags using the blank side of a business card and colored markers. I put the cross on mine, because that is my identity-the salvation that came through Christ's sacrifice on the cross. And while not many have mentioned it, I have had brief incounters with those who also belong to Him because they saw the cross. "Galatians 6:14: But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world."

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I'm glad I picked that book to go through with my friend! Now I'm really looking forward to it!

Ahhhhh..... Now I understand where that little scenario came from! Ok, so most of us don't have the authority to 'administer' justice on a larger scale. But, in scenarios such as was given, certainly we can. I remember when my little sister found a large wad of money in a store. She didn't just keep it, nor did my parents. They turned it into the store where it was found. I guess it was up to the store then to administer justice by returning it to the owner when it was claimed. In everyday life, I'm not quite sure how that plays out in other situations. Though, I guess I can think of an example. The employees where I work like to take their food 'to go' even when they're not, because they don't like to pay tax. Would then executing justice be to refuse to do that (an obvious yes); would it also mean pointing out the wrong to others even if you know they don't care (ok, I'm thinking another yes), even if it would cause tension at work (again, doing right means doing right regardless of consequences). I think I've answered my own questions!

Well, I look forward to learning, but I still don't have a real clear idea of what it means.

Could another good word for what you're referring to be discernment?

Congrats, Anita! Welcome to the blue!

The Words of our Father are the only standard we have with which to judge aright...

There is a righteous anger which Jesus demonstrated when grieved at sin and the hardness of people's hearts. This is a good thing to possess, especially when we are angry with our own sin, because it drives us to seek the destruction of that sin in us.