According to Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, your words are serious.

Someone has called slander and malicious gossip, verbal homicide.

You're killing someone's reputation.

And verbal homicide, slander, it destroys lives, it destroys families, it destroys relationships. It destroys churches. And I've seen it

over and over and over again. If you stop to think about it, you've seen it over and over again.

That's grievous enough. But what grieves my heart is to think how many times have I contributed

to dividing friends, to destroying friends or relationships,

the body of Christ, by the wicked use of my tongue to slander others.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Adorned, for Friday, February 17th, 2017.

Beautiful design. It's not primarily about clothing or decorating.

Titus II tells us what true beautiful design is, as defined by the ultimate designer.

Nancy writes about that in her new book on Titus II called Adorned, Living Out the Beauty of the Gospel Together.

And she's been taking us through this passage

for the last couple of weeks here on Revive Our Hearts. She continues with an important component

to a believer's beauty, her gentle words. I can't tell you how often it's the case that as I'm

studying and preparing to teach something on Revive Our Hearts, God uses that

study to pierce and penetrate my own heart and to bring conviction to me. And that certainly

has been true with this series on Titus II. And in particular, the phrase that we're talking about

in Titus II, about women not being slanderers. And God has been using

in recent weeks this study to search my own heart and to bring a lot of conviction. Now, we've

been talking about the implications in our lives as women of knowing and believing sound doctrine.

It's not just enough to know what's true, to know the word of God,

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