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Proverbs 2:6 “For the Lord gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.”   Proverbs 15:2 “The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of the fool gushes folly.”  Proverbs 15:28   “The heart of the righteous weighs its answers, but the mouth of the wicked gushes evil.”  Proverbs 16:10   “The lips of… Read more »

Proverbs 2:6 “For the Lord gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.”   Proverbs 15:14 “The discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of a fool feeds on folly.”   Proverbs 16:23 “A wise man’s heart guides his mouth, and his lips promote instruction.”   A faulty appeal to authority is an… Read more »

Proverbs 4:24 “Put away perversity from your mouth; keep corrupt talk far from your lips.” Proverbs 10:11 “The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but violence overwhelms the mouth of the wicked.” Proverbs 11:9 “With his mouth the godless destroys his neighbor.” Proverbs 26:28 “A lying tongue hates those it hurts, and a flattering mouth works ruin.”   We… Read more »

Proverbs 22:17-19,21  “Pay attention and turn your ear to the sayings of the wise; apply your heart to what I teach,  for it is pleasing when you keep them in your heart and have all of them ready on your lips.  So that your trust may be in the Lord, I teach you today, even… Read more »

Proverbs 1:5 “Let the wise listen and add to their learning, and let the discerning get guidance.”   Proverbs 12:15 “The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice.”   James 1:19 “My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak… Read more »

We live in a world of great deception. It is a world where we find fallacies operating in our debates, TV ads, daily conversations and especially in the political realm. It is important for us to understand these fallacies in order that we too are not deceived. These 14 fallacies are the ones most usually… Read more »

We know that with every action – there is a reaction. In other words, we have a ‘because – therefore’ situation.   We see this coming out constantly in the prophetic writings in the Old Testament. For example: Ezekiel 26:2-3 “’Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that… Read more »

Genesis 1:26-28 “Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.’  So God created man in his own… Read more »

2 Corinthians 4:13 “It is written: ‘I believed; therefore I have spoken.’ With that same spirit of faith we also believe and therefore speak.”   I was watching the debates of the presidential candidates. If we mean that each side can come and present their views then that is a debate. But often what happens… Read more »

2 Corinthians 4:13 “I believed; therefore I have spoken.”   Over the past few weeks I have been hearing a lot about the “spiral of silence” and decided that I would do some research and see what it is all about and how it pertains to us.   Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann was a German political scientist… Read more »