document.write("\n\n<center><font color='#008000'><font size=5><b>Thoughts for the Week</b></font>\n\n");

document.write("<br><font size=4><i>August 23-29, 2010</i></font></font>\n\n");

document.write("<br>(Titus 3)</center>\n\n");

document.write("<h2>Introductory questions to chew</h2>");
document.write("<p>What is my spirit toward authority and those who wield it?");
document.write("<p>Do I place the correct value on gentleness and meekness?");
document.write("<p>When I need washing, do I know it...and ask God to do it?");
document.write("<p>How careful am I <i>\"to maintain good works\"</i> (and how do I do that)?");
document.write("<p>Will I avoid subjects and discussions that are empty and without profitability?");
document.write("<p>What shall I do about the heretic who has some \"good teaching\" to offer?");
document.write("<p>Who have I helped recently?");

document.write("<h2>Show All Meekness</h2>");
document.write("<p><i>\"To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men\"</i> (Titus 3:2).");
document.write("<p>No evil speech of anyone.");
document.write("<p>Oh my.");
document.write("<p>I wonder if my Spanish Bible will soften that somehow, maybe give me a bigger loophole for saying uncomplimentary-though-not-evil things of others.");
document.write("<p><i>\"That they defame nobody.\"</i> ");
document.write("<p><i>Gulp!</i> That doesn't make the loophole bigger -- it outright closes it!");
document.write("<p>So I guess I'll have to opt for gentleness and meekness in my speech about others.");
document.write("<p>That's going to be tough.");
document.write("<p>For some reason, that reminds me of this:");
document.write("<p><i>\"Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me\"</i> (Psalm 52:10).");

document.write("<p style='margin-left:50px; margin-right:50px'><i>This concludes my comments based on the alternate lesson developed by Christian Light Publications. To read my comments on the passage for the International Bible Study, click here: <a href='http://www.anabaptists.org/clp/youth/13-310ibs.html'>Keeping Commitments</a></i>.");

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