Every once in a while we talk about writing on the podcast.

Several emails over the years have asked if you would coach aspiring writers,

Pastor John, and obviously many Christian writers gravitate to you as a master of the craft.

And that's why over the years APJ episodes have covered the calling to write, how to write poems,

write biographies, even down into the details of grammar and punctuation,

on the no-noes of ghost writing, and then most popular of all on productivity on how it is

that you create so many books and sermons and articles and

Apj episodes and all that with advice for how all Christian creators can

maximize their own output. All those topics have been well covered in the past, as you can see in my

summary in the new APJ book on pages 411 to 416. But we've never gotten down into the weeds of how to write a sentence.

Sentences change lives.

You've said that before on the podcast, but from your perspective,

what makes a great edifying sentence,

how do you write and rewrite a sentence like this?

And what would be your five or so pieces of advice

for crafting edifying pros beyond all

that we've already covered on the podcast, something relevant for book

authors and for Christians who just want to send maybe an edifying text message to a friend,

what would you say? I start with the conviction that our words,

whether spoken or written, really matter. Death and life are in the power of the tongue.

Proverbs 1821.

That's powerful.

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