Prayer For Media – Prayer For Better Communication Lord, make us instruments of your peace. Help us to recognize the evil latent in a communication that does not build communion. Help us to remove the venom from our judgements. Help us to speak about others as our brothers and sisters. You are faithful and trustworthy; may our words be seeds …
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Prayer, For a Discerning Heart, by King Solomon
Heavenly Father, we offer up this prayer by King Solomon as our own today: I Kings 3:9: [Solomon’s prayer when he learns he will be king.] “Give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong. For who is able to govern this great people of yours?” (Today’s New International Version) In Jesus’ …
Prayer, To Use God’s Gift of Communication Wisely, by Kevin Jones
Father, thank you for our gift of communication, even though it can be hard to use your gift wisely. Forgive me for when I have felt tension in a relationship and attacked or criticized the other person. I pray for wisdom and insight on how to experience tension in relationships but not damage the relationship with the way I communicate …
Column Entry, “Ethos: Harmonizing Life and Teaching,” by Brandon Knight
Column Title: In Search of Right Words: Saint Augustine, Rhetoric, and Preaching By Brandon Knight, Ph.D. William Carey University September: “Ethos: Harmonizing Life and Teaching” Column Description: Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, in his work On Christian Doctrine, illustrates the important relationship between preaching and rhetoric. Even in his day, many questioned what use the church could possibly gain from the study …
Column Entry, Let’s Talk Family, Families Doing Life Together
Column: Let’s Talk Family: Conversations about Faith and Family Flourishing Column entry: Families Doing Life Together By Jonathan Pettigrew, PhD, Arizona State University; Diane Badzinski, PhD, Colorado Christian University Column Description: Let’s Talk Family: Conversations about Faith and Family Flourishing is a monthly column offering a space to consider research-based, biblically-sound practices for family communication. We all have families. And …
