Contributed by Bill Butsko on Sep 17, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    “A careless word may kindle strife,
A cruel word may wreck a life;
A bitter word may hate instill,
A brutal word may smite and kill;
A gracious word may smooth the way
A joyous word may light the
                    
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                    Contributed by Evie Megginson on Jun 19, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    There is tremendous power in the Word of God. This truth is illustrated in a story told by C. H. Spurgeon. Out of curiosity, an agnostic who belonged to what was known as the "Hell-fire Club" attended a service where George Whitefield was preaching. At the next meeting of the club, the young man
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat
                    
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                    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jan 16, 2010
                
                
                
                    POWER OF THE WORD OF GOD-----A friend of mine, Bill, was a bible translator for Wycliff Bible Translators in some very remote mountains in Bolivia. Bill was on the second Wycliff team. The first Wycliff team went into the most prominent village in the area and learned the local Bolivian language.
                    
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                    THE POWER OF A COMPLIMENT
Helen Mrosla writes: 
"In an earlier grade, I’d taped Mark’s mouth shut for talking too much in class. Now he was a  student in my junior high school math class.
"His class had worked hard all week. By Friday the students were getting cranky. So, for a break, I asked
                    
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                    Contributed by Richard Tow on Apr 4, 2023
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Mark Eklund was a student in Sister Helen’s nineth grade math class at St. Mary’s School in Morris, Minnesota. He was much less talkative than he had been years earlier in her third-grade class. One Friday Sister Helen sensed the class’s frustration with trying to learn “ne math.” So, she asked
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "Words have incredible power. They can make peoples hearts sore, and they can
                    
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                    The truth is everyone of your words matter, they influence someone either negatively or positively. How many times have you heard someone say, “I wish I would never have said that!” Our text in James today addresses the issue of the uncontrolled words of the tongue. We see this dilemma of words
                    
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