• Inner peace is fostered by what comes out of us (The Morality of Peace).

  • We know that God wants us to guard our speech: Ps. 141: 3; Eph. 5: 4; Prov. 10: 19; Mt. 12: 36-37; Jas. 3: 8 (The Morality of Peace).

  • We should make our conversations count. God expects us to tell others of the good He is going in our lives. We should use our words to build people up — not just give prideful, selfish discourses of ourselves (The Morality of Peace).

  • Our humor has to be appropriate. It shouldn’t be derogatory humor and banter (The Morality of Peace).

  • It is so easy these days to cut people down. Yes, some of it is done in jest. Unfortunately, much of it today is people who think they have the right to rip up one side and down the other on someone who has a different opinion than theirs (How Do We Respect Others?).

  • Sometimes, we may think our words don’t matter. They do matter, because they produce actions (How Do We Respect Others?).

  • The old saying is so wrong. Words do harm. They can elicit emotions that can just bubble over and take situations to places we never intended (How Do We Respect Others?).

  • We don’t want to cause injury – even through our words – to our fellow disciples (How Do We Respect Others?).

  • But the opposite of cutdown is build up. We are called to be encouragers (How Do We Respect Others?).

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