Proverbs: How to Build a Life: The Hidden Power of Everyday Words
About this episode
Grant Clark discusses the impact of everyday words based on Proverbs 18:21, emphasizing their power to shape lives.
We continue our series through the book of Proverbs, How to Build a Life, with a message from Proverbs 18:21. Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and Grant Clark walks through what Proverbs teaches about the hidden power of everyday words, spoken or typed, to destroy or to give life, and why the deeper call is not simply to speak better but to let Jesus change the heart our words flow from. A little fun with words to start: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters) Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (36 letters) The shortest complete sentence: "Go." or "I am." Shortest English word containing all five vowels: Sequoia (7 letters) "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." In 2013 a PR worker named Justine Sacco posted a twelve word tweet before an eleven hour flight, switched off her phone, and landed to find the sentence had gone viral, cost her job, and redefined her life. Twelve words, less than a minute of typing, changed everything. Proverbs 18:21 says death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit. Our words carry power for good and for evil, power to destroy reputations, end…
People in this episode
Host: Grant Clark
Topics covered
- power of words
- Proverbs
- communication
- life lessons
- spiritual growth
Keywords
- Proverbs 18:21
- power of the tongue
- words
- communication
- spirituality
- affirmation
- life change
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Proverbs
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- Proverbs: How to Build a Life: The Way of Wisdom
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- Above All Else: From Gluttony to Self-Control
- Above All Else: From Anger to Graciousness
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