{"id":8203,"date":"2025-04-24T06:15:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T06:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/?p=8203"},"modified":"2025-04-24T06:55:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T11:55:33","slug":"your-own-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/?p=8203","title":{"rendered":"Your Own Face"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\u201cDon\u2019t pick on people, jump on their failures, criticize their faults\u2014unless, of course, you want the same treatment. That critical spirit has a way of boomeranging. It\u2019s easy to see a smudge on your neighbor\u2019s face and be oblivious to the ugly sneer on your own. Do you have the nerve to say, \u2018Let me wash your face for you,\u2019 when your own face is distorted by contempt? It\u2019s this whole traveling road-show mentality all over again, playing a holier-than-thou part instead of just living your part. Wipe that ugly sneer off your own face, and you might be fit to offer a washcloth to your neighbor.&#8221; MATTHEW 7:1-5 (The Message)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDon\u2019t pick on people, jump on their failures, criticize their faults\u2014unless, of course, you want the same treatment. That critical spirit has a way of boomeranging. It\u2019s easy to see a smudge on your neighbor\u2019s face and be oblivious to the ugly sneer on your own. Do you have the nerve to say, \u2018Let me wash your face for you,\u2019 when your own face is distorted by contempt? It\u2019s this whole traveling road-show mentality all over again, playing a holier-than-thou&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/?p=8203\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}