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Tag Archives: bullying
Bullying & violence say, “I’m incapable!”
When someone uses bullying or violence to get what he wants, he tells the world that he’s incapable of getting it some other way. However, hurting someone in order to get what you want is cruelty. The desire to hurt … Continue reading →
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I prefer America the beautiful over America the bully-full. Disagreements don’t have to destroy kindness.
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Tagged America, America the Beautiful, antibullying, bullies, bullying, end bullying, kindness, stop bullying
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Immature language (unadult language) & politics
Inflammatory, insulting and vulgar words aren’t “adult language.” “Mature language” is kind, caring, helpful, and respectfully honest. Fighting insults with insults only increases hostility. Inflammatory rhetoric lacks wisdom. Words matter. Yours can hurt, harm, and/or harass, while hyping hostility, or … Continue reading →
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Tagged adult language, bullying, hostility, insults, mature language, maturity, name calling, put downs, stop bullying
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Profanity is not a love language
Love language seems to be in decline. For example: Even medical care has evolved from the hands-on healing of wounds and diseases to paying a person to tell you what drugs to take. When it comes to love language, let’s … Continue reading →
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Tagged bullying, cussing, living water, love language, medical care, profanity, racial reconciliation, skin color, supremacy, tormenting thoughts
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What ever happened to the concept of “I respectfully disagree”?
Demanding that people agree with you is unreasonable and can only produce insincere compliance. Instead be kind to everyone. Anybody can insult, mock, and be unkind, but it takes amazing courage to cross color, ethnic, and political lines with ongoing … Continue reading →
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Tagged acts of kindness, bullying, compliments, image of God, insecurity, kindness, politics, respect, respectfully disagree, speaking the truth in love
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Be a light of kindness
Everybody needs kindness; even the people who disagree with you. Why not show them some? Is there a relationship between forgiveness and kindness. (Jesus said: “Whoever has been forgiven little loves little.”) The slightest kindness you show can change a … Continue reading →
Posted in agree to disagree, anti-bullying, He broke down the wall of hostility, lovingkindness, name calling, Random acts of kindness, right to disagree, stop bullying, Uncategorized, unkindness
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Tagged acts of kindness, Be kind for everyone is fighting, bullying, Christianity, forgiveness, guilt, how to overcome guilt, kindness, milk of human kindness, when church is unkind
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Christianity is a bully-free faith!
A Christ-follower’s focus should be on love. We should never try to force, coerce, bully, intimidate, or manipulate people. We are called to “speak the truth in love” and to “consider others better than yourself.” This Bible verse always makes … Continue reading →
Make America polite again
There’s nothing great about rudeness and bullying. It’s time to make America polite again!
Posted in acts of kindness, anger, arrogance, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, kindness, lovingkindness, name calling, negative campaigning, presidential campaign, Presidential politics, pride, Uncategorized, unkindness
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Tagged bullying, election, Make America great again, politeness, politics, rudeness, slogans, trump
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There’s no room for bullying in democracy (or church)
Want to go beyond the bullying and 1-man control that can be common in church? There’s no room for bullying in democracy or in church! –Modern democracy depends on decisions developed by deliberation, diplomacy, and consensus; not on the dictatorship … Continue reading →
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Tagged bullying, city council, Congress, democracy, history, Parliament, politics, recovery, the struggle is real
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Beyond verbal bullying and belligerent boasting!
Christ-followers are called to love our enemies, not to blast them with verbal bullying and belligerent boasting! Jesus wasn’t kidding when He said “love your enemies”! What a person is, is more important that what a person says. A man can … Continue reading →
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Tagged bullying, deomons, love, love your enemies, name calling, politics, presidential campaign, trump
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