A dishonest man spreads strife, and a gossip separates close friends.Proverbs 16:8 I looked up the word ‘gossip’ on my online thesaurus. Here’s some of the words I found: chatter, hearsay, scandal, babble, blather, defamation, grapevine, meddling, prattle, scuttlebutt, dirty linen, back fence chatter, idle talk, bad mouth. Read more…
Confront The Villain
I ended my last post with these words: “Will the wildfire of The Tongue’s Power stay unchecked? Each of us needs to start with admitting THE PROBLEM. Then God can start to work..” Let’s start with the basic evil: Deceit Read more…
Power Beyond Comprehension
It only takes a spark, remember, to set off a forest fire. A careless or wrongly placed word out of your mouth can do that. By our speech we can ruin the world, turn harmony to chaos, throw mud on a reputation, send the whole world up in smoke and go up in smoke with […] Read more…
I’ve Got THE Answer!
Anger. Confusion. A lot of hurt. Words spoken gone awry. Hate spewed. Deceit declared to be the truth. Lives changed because what was said destroyed a relationship The past–—the pieces that are worth remembering,: the sage wisdom and memories that were meant to teach us––has being ignored. The future––not even being considered. Our world, as I remember it, is […] Read more…
The Cure and No Longer Scary
When I first started writing about Lukewarm-ness, I used the word ‘scary’. It was bothersome. I found the idea irritating and unruly…like a mosquito. Then, when I added the thought of people who viewed being Christian as a joke…it was breaking this woman’s heart. The idea of Christianity to the nay-sayer was not worth his or her time, because we were found to be […] Read more…