Defining Moments

< 1 min readDo all things without murmurings and disputings: – Philippians 2:14   “Do all things,” an all-encompassing command to go about all of one’s business in life without complaining or arguing. “Murmurings,” γογγυσμός gongysmos complaining; grumbling. “Disputings,” διαλογισμός dialogismos, doubting or questioning, arguing and disputing.   Right now we don’t need to try too hard to…

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Let Your Speech be Seasoned with Salt

< 1 min readLet your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. – Colossians 4:6    Salt as a seasoning is applied to bring out that which is pleasant.    How can we use our words to bring out that which is pleasant today?   Adapted…

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Let Your Speech be Full of Grace

2 min readLet your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. – Colossians 4:6    “Let your speech be always with grace,” both in manner and matter.  Graceful communication is not only courteous (manner) but it is full of the Good News (matter) and therefore…

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A Word to the Weary

< 1 min readThe Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned. – Isaiah 50:4   Certainly, the gift of speech is given to men by…

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