February Sermon Series: The Power of Words
Do you ever speak uncharitably about other people? Do you ever poison the well? Tell half-truths or spread hearsay? I know Christians who regularly and freely speak ill of other people. I have at times done the same with a sad and distorted sense of pleasure. Returning to Jesus’ words, if from the abundance of what is in the heart, the mouth speaks. What do our acts of backbiting, tale-bearing, gossip and slander say about what is in our hearts? Surely, they are a sign of our own insecurities, or of the stain on our own souls. So join us in February to be challenged to live into the scripture: Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only what is useful for building up, as there is need, so that your words may give grace to those who hear. ~Ephesians 4:29