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Last night I taught a 23-1/2 minute devotional message on prayer, particularly on the holiness of our heavenly Father (“His Name is Holy” found on SermonAudio.com). Approaching the end of the message I was having some dexterity problems from the ailments of ALS and I couldn’t turn the pages of my Bible to the last reference in my closing remarks. I made light of the fact that I couldn’t turn to the page and made a light and humorous comment about my “bad hands.”

Are light and humorous comments sinful? God forbid! But were they inappropriate from the pulpit, especially when speaking on the holiness of God? I believed they were in this instance. I was ashamed for having done so and I even repented and asked forgiveness in my closing prayer. The topic at hand was a tender and reverent presentation of a heavenly Father that is “holy, holy, holy,” to use the language of Isaiah 6:3, and the frailty of my flesh caused me, for a moment, to speak in the flesh concerning holy and glorious things.

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