The New Doublespeak

In The New Doublespeak: Why No One Knows What Anyone's Saying Anymore, author William Lutz defines a few of the more creative doublespeak terms currently ...

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Beyond Idle Chatter

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

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The World Needs Messages

The world does not need sermons; it needs a message. You can go to seminary and learn how to preach sermons, but you will have to go to God to get messages. ...

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Hoping Your Spouse Reads Minds

When Christian musician Michael Card got married in 1982, he and Susan expected smooth sailing. But it wasn't long before they started running into ...

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The Art of Careful Conversation

Be humble and gentle in your conversation; and of few words, I charge you; but always pertinent when you speak.

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The Power of Deeds

Major Osipovich, an air force pilot for the former USSR, planned to give a talk at his children's school about peace. But he would need time off during ...

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A Word Fitly Spoken

I spoke

Words fell

Aimlessly on ears.

Later

One said,

"Your word--

It helped

That Day."

I turned

Wondering--

Forgot I said

That word.

Let me speak

Those ...

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Language as Art

Most of us would hesitate to call the kind of writing we do "art." ... There are indeed times, indeed most times are these, when we do use language ...

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Experience--Not Language

Christianity is not, and never has been, about finding the right combination of words! It is about encountering the living and loving God.

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Words, Words, Words

The Bible tells us that the most vital and yet the most difficult thing to master is our words. It is not so much what goes in one ear and comes out the ...

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