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Hi, this is Pastor Steve, and it's great to be with you today on the Daily Drive. Today we're

going to be talking about Christ honoring communication. You know, one of the

greatest gifts that God has given us is this gift called communication. With communication, we can

encourage one another. We can give direction. We can tell people when something's bothering us and

express our anger in a God-honoring way.

There are just so many things that we can do with this gift called communication.

But we need to be careful with it because like all good gifts, it can be good and it can also be used for evil.

It's like water.

Water can quench our thirst.

It gives us life. We can't live without water.

And yet we know that water, too much of it at one time uncontroll can cause death. Same thing is true

of fire. The fire can warm us and it can cause us, allow us to, you know, heat the food that we're

eating. There's all kinds of wonderful uses for fire,

but we've also seen raging forest fires that have provided death. In fact, in Proverbs of the 18th

chapter, verse 21, it says that in our words are both life and death. And so we want it to be life.

And so how can we honor God with our communication? I want us just to look at one aspect of that today.

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