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“Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.” These words, spoken by Ralph Waldo Emerson, reveal the importance of the topic today. If you haven’t guessed yet, the topic is speech or language. When most pastors, Sunday school teachers, or devotionals talk about what we as Christians say, their focus is typically on…

Romans 8:31 “What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?” Psalm 31:15 “My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.” Matthew 16:17-18 “And Jesus answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son…

In middle school, our Vice Principal always closed the morning announcements with this quote: “Make it a great day or not, the choice is yours.” I thought of this as a check on my attitude—that regardless of what happened in my day, I had a choice in how I viewed my circumstances, how I reacted, and whether…

“But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.” (1 Thessalonians 4:13-14). Note that this verse does not…