Do Facts Care about Your Feelings?
Feelings and facts work together because our feelings, when properly ordered, perfectly align with truth.
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Communication’s Two Catastrophic Cousins
What’s the heart issue behind slander and gossip? The narcissistic duo of self-love and self-promotion. When we traffic in slander and gossip, we tear others down and build ourselves up.
Pastor, How’s Your Bedside Manner?
Like a good doctor, pastors must strive to present difficult truths in a clear, kind, compassionate manner. May we guard against our tendency to allow the tone of our message from hindering the truth from being heard.
What Will We Think about Our Rhetoric on the Last Day?
Hyperbole and exaggeration can be effective rhetorical devices, grabbing our attention and constraining us to see what we didn’t see before, but they can also be used for ill and to mislead.
New Book: Be Slow to Talk and Slow to Tweet
It’s always a good time for a new book on our communications struggles and how Christ empowers us to overcome them.