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Love Edifies through Words
One implication of the fact that love edifies is manifest in our use of words to communicate knowledge. Knowledge, of the sort that puffs up, is shared with the goal of aggrandizing ourselves and asserting our superiority over ideas and… Continue reading
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Love Edifies
"… Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies." – I Corinthians 8:1 (NKJV) To edify is to build something from the ground up … like people … toward the direction of their purposes and dreams. We can know much… Continue reading
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How utterly quotable one might be if words were fewer and not so free. Continue reading
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Say It
Here is a little formula for saying what you want to say: S.A.Y.- I.T. S – Search your own heart and mind for what you really want to convey. A – Assess your audience so that you can access their… Continue reading
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Say It
Here is a little formula for saying what you want to say: S.A.Y.- I.T. S – Search your own heart and mind for what you really want to convey. A – Assess your audience so that you can access… Continue reading
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Saying More With Fewer Words
"When words are many, sin is not absent, but he who holds his tongue is wise." – Proverbs 10:19 (New International Version (©1984)) I am working on using fewer words to say more. At the very least, there is a… Continue reading
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Habits of the First Half of Life
"It seems, in fact, that, the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half." – Fyodor Dostoevsky As much as I love Dostoevsky, I am not buying… Continue reading
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Life Academy
Life Academy We dream; we grow;We move; we flow;We laugh; we glow.While here below,We live in anticipationOf pomp and circumstanceAnd graduation.We are matriculated in the school of lifeArticulated by toil and tears and strife.We are students of all that passesWork… Continue reading
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For Your Birthday – Whenever It Is
Happy Birthday The perplexing poles of gratitude and regret, Pictures in the mind we cannot forget, Unwritten sonnets, unsung songs, Unfulfilled wishes, un-righted wrongs. Tempered and enveloped by words aptly spoken, Mended hearts which once were broken, Loves requited,… Continue reading
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Big Day
Big Day God has a very big day in store for you tomorrow. You will conquer fear, despair, and sorrow. You will rise to heights you've never known. You will sigh and laugh, and sing and groan. You will live… Continue reading
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