Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 8, 2022
. As families become more dysfunctional, social skills decline. A number of school counselors are noting a rise in “language deficit.” Some parents rarely converse with their children but use the television as a nanny. The result: children recognize but do not grasp the meaning of COMMON words.
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Tom Mccrossan on Oct 28, 2006
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"If God does speak in Scripture, what language does he use? There is a story about an elderly lady who took up Hebrew in her advanced years because she wanted to be able to greet her Maker in his native tongue. That, I fear, is taking a biblical figure of speech to a humorous
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between ones real and ones declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words
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Contributed by Neil Olcott on Sep 9, 2009
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LEARN TO SPEAK THE LANGUAGE
A new missionary recruit went to Venezuela for the first time. He was struggling with the language and didn’t understand a whole lot of what was going on. Intending to visit one of the local churches, he got lost, but he eventually got back on track and found the place.
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need. It is the voice of the beggar, conscious of his
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SPEAKING THE SAME LANGUAGE
Back in 1991, I went on a mission trip to the former Soviet Union. Twenty-or-so of us arrived on a snowy November day in Samara, a city of more than a million people located on the Volga River. We were there for about ten days, and our mission was to help start a
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 25, 2010
A farmer was known for his bad language. Parents always kept their children from him. However, he was invited to church, and accepted Christ! There was a great change in his language. He remarked, “I’ve been changed so much that even my horses don’t
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"Language is a wonderful thing. It can be used to express our thoughts, to conceal our
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