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As I was reading these proverbs through again today, I fear that we could easily switch the word “scoffer” for the word “blogger.” These proverbs have so much in them to challenge the Christian blogging community. How easily could we write — “Bloggers set a city aflame,” or “. . . a blogger doesn’t listen to a rebuke,” or “whoever corrects a blogger gets himself abuse,” or dare I say it — “Blogger is the name of the arrogant haughty man who acts with arrogant pride.” I do not say this merely to rebuke other bloggers — I am only too well aware of these tendencies in myself.

I would love to issue a challenge to any blogger willing to take it up to mention one of these proverbs on their own blog and discuss how we can avoid falling into this kind of behaviour — both online and in our off-blog lives.

"An idol is something we look for things that only God can give.  Idolatry functions widely inside religious communities when doctrinal truth is elevated to the position of a a false god.  This occurs when people rely on the rightness of their doctrine for their standing with God rather than God himself and his grace.  It is a subtle by deadly mistake.  The sign that you have become what the book of P...