We have received quite a few emails on cussing and why it's a sin to let a four-letter word

rip every once in a while.

Why or why not is this a sin, Pastor John, and is there any difference if it's a word directed

at a person calling someone a name or just out loud in response to a circumstance like

hitting your thumb with a hammer, what would you say?

These are questions.

This kind of question is the sort of thing parents have to deal with because we all have to

set standards for our kids and I think kids soon, not late, soon, need to have reasons for

the standards that you set for them like we don't say that in this family.

Well, why don't we say it and we need reasons.

So here's some of my thoughts about language first.

There's a whole category of the misuse of important realities.

I'm thinking, God, Jesus Christ, damn and hell, let's take those four.

I think the Bible is pretty clear and pretty explicit when it says don't take the name

of the Lord in vain that God as a throwaway word or Jesus Christ as a word of I just hit

my finger or something just terrible happened or damn as a swear word or hell as a throwaway

word.

The problem with all those is that they take things that are unbelievably important, serious

and they turn them into moments of smallness.

There's a disconnect, there's a lack of coherence and harmony between the way they're being

used and the weight that they should carry.

If a person uses God and Jesus Christ and damn and hell as a throwaway, standard expression

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