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Make Holy the Name of God |
The Ten Commandments |
This is a "do not take the name of the Lord in vain" sermon. That was a very specific thing within the Hebrew culture, but today profanity is everywhere, and crude, vulgar language gets thrown into the hopper with every kind of horrid use of God, Jesus, Christ--the Lord's name. A report in the New York Times not long ago said that surveys indicate that profanity is worse among today's young people than it has ever been before. The questions a preacher struggles with are everywhere here. Does profanity matter? In there a connection between profane speech and the state of one's heart? Is that really the problem with profanity? And what to do about filthy language? What happens in a public place where the common language is embarrassing and bewildering? What can, or should, a preacher say about the nature of today's crude and insulting speech? Here is my sermon exploring the problem of profanity in today's world. |