Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and best-selling author Dr. Paul David Tripp connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

We're excited to introduce a brand new audio resource from Paul Tripp Ministries, the Wednesday's Word podcast.

This podcast features a weekly reading of Paul's popular Wednesday's Word devotional.

Today, we're going to listen to the debut episode, which focuses on our communication struggles in the digital realm.

Be sure to subscribe to the Wednesday's Word podcast wherever you listen to podcasts so you don't miss an episode.

Here's the debut of the Wednesday's Word podcast.

Welcome to Paul Tripp's Wednesday's Word podcast. I'm Dalton Griner, a member of the Paul

Trip Ministries team. Join me each week as I read aloud Paul's popular Wednesday's Word

devotional. You can subscribe to our email list to receive this devotional straight to your

inbox each week,

or read online at paultrip.com slash Wednesday, or on Facebook, Instagram, and the Paul Tripp app.

This week, Paul wants us to examine our communication and how we can honor God with the way we talk, text, and tweet.

Here's this week's audio reading of Paul Tripp's Wednesday's work.

For disciples of Jesus Christ, God honoring and neighbor-loving communication cannot be defined simply by vocabulary selection.

The motivation of our heart and the intention of our message is what counts.

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up,

as fits the occasion that it may give grace to those who hear. Ephesians 429.

Because of digital media, corrupting talk and hearing are no longer limited to verbal communication. We talk, text, tweet, email, share,

like, comment, and hashtag all the time. It's now an inescapable part of who we are and how we

interact with others.

So for the next five weeks, I want to dive deeper into this area of our everyday social life.

We will examine five biblical themes that can help expose, convict, restore, and transform

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