Healing Words or Sword Thrusts?

Healing Words or Sword Thrusts? – “You can try to control the tongue, but it will be driven by what’s in your heart. No amount of self-discipline can kink the hose between what’s in your heart and what comes out of your mouth.”

Are Your Words Wholesome – or Unwholesome? It Matters!

Are Your Words Wholesome – or Unwholesome? It Matters! – “The bar for unwholesome is not set very high. It’s not that you can have some rottenness, some corruption. There’s no room for any.”

 

The Severe Kindness of Jesus: Hearing Mercy in His Hard Words

The Severe Kindness of Jesus: Hearing Mercy in His Hard Words – “So, when you come to Jesus, certainly expect to receive his grace and kindness. But don’t expect them to always feel comforting. Because sometimes his kindness is severe and feels anything but comforting.”

Justification Triumphs over Slander

Justification Triumphs over Slander – “The Scriptures testify that evil words can be deadly, but the good news is that God’s gracious words are more powerful than slander.”

 

Toxic Talk, Texts, and Tweets

Toxic Talk, Texts, and Tweets – “We need to pray for a clean heart that loves. A heart controlled by the love of Christ listens, reads, and reacts well. A heart ruled by sin carries hatred, chooses vengeance over mercy, and is more eager to blame than confess.”

Transparency is Not an End in Itself

Transparency is Not an End in Itself – “Something great is lost when words of value become catch phrases of a culture.”

Winning Your Child’s Heart with Winsome Words

Winning Your Child’s Heart with Winsome Words – “Sometimes, when we are using words to keep order and get things done, we lose sight of the power they possess.”

Winning Your Child’s Heart with Winsome Words

Winning Your Child’s Heart with Winsome Words – “Do we understand the impact of our words on our children? We utter words every day in all sorts of situations, often without intentionality. Sometimes, when we are using words to keep order and get things done, we lose sight of the power they possess.”

Toxic

Toxic – “So, next time you want to reach for this adjective, pause, and ask yourself: is there a more biblical way I can describe the sin I’m talking about? And am I using this language to excuse running from a situation, in to which I haven’t yet faithfully spoken Christ’s gospel of repentance?”

10 Ways to Fight Like a Christian

10 Ways to Fight Like a Christian – “Paul mentions two kinds of speech: that which builds up and that which pulls down. This verse and the surrounding passage show us 10 ways that we can handle conflict well.”

A Healing Psalm

A Healing Psalm – “God’s pure Word protects from the wicked’s painful words.”

God Makes War with Words: Why Teaching Will Win the World

God Makes War with Words: Why Teaching Will Win the World – “The church teaches and teaches and teaches — trusting that through teaching, God will grow and guard his kingdom in lands once ruled by lies.”

20 Scriptures To Guide Our Online Speech

20 Scriptures To Guide Our Online Speech – “May God give us the humility to recognize how our online speech may be out of step with his calling on our lives.”

The Spiritual Discipline of Shutting Up

The Spiritual Discipline of Shutting Up – “One discipline that is conspicuously absent from most lists, but which I find to be incredibly beneficial in my sanctification and in my relationships with others is the spiritual discipline of shutting my mouth.”

The Weightiness of Words

The Weightiness of Words – “In a world of spin and marketing, self-promotion and self-pity, Facebook comment sections and Twitter mobs, we are drowning in a typhoon of words poorly used, carelessly cast, angrily angled.”

 

A Word from Solomon About Social Media

A Word from Solomon About Social Media – The wisdom literature’s teaching put a heavy focus on our words and communication. There are plenty of applications for social media.

 

 

The Sin-Defying Power of Words

The Sin-Defying Power of Words – “With the help of the Spirit, and through the power of words, we can say “No!” and drive it away with God’s better promises.”

Words Kill, Words Give Life

Words Kill, Words Give Life – “Every utterance that escapes our lips mat­ters, which means you’ve never spoken a neutral word in your life.”

 

Words Matter Because the Heart Matters

Words Matter Because the Heart Matters – “Words matter because they flow out of our hearts. Communication mat­ters because what the heart is and does matters.”

Our Tongues (and Fingers) of Fire: What Words Reveal About Us

Our Tongues (and Fingers) of Fire: What Words Reveal About Us – “What we say is so connected to our hearts that even our careless words are telling. And what often makes careless words revealing is that we speak them when our guard is down.”