Welcome to the Thankful Homemaker Podcast, a podcast to be an encouragement and

blessing to each other and the role God has called us to as women. I'm so thankful

you've stopped by so grab yourself a coffee or tea and sit with me a bit as we talk

about how God's word impacts every area of our lives as Christian women.

Hello friend, I'm Marcy Farrell from Thankful Homemaker and I'm so glad to be with you today.

Today we're discussing an important topic.

Gossip. We can't seem to get away from it. Gossip is a prevalent and

poisonous sin that's so often not dealt with because our words have power

and they can bring death or life to our relationships. So in today's episode 164 and I've titled it resisting gossip using words to build up.

We're going to dive into what the Bible says about gossip. We're going to talk about

its consequences and practical ways to guard our speech, to build others up.

We're going to walk through together biblical principles and wise practices to resist gossip and

to use our words to reflect God's love and grace.

So let's start today by defining what gossip is according to the Bible, because gossip is

a really sin, it's a sin that's hard to escape from. So whether we're the one speaking

it or we're listening to it or we're being the subject of it, gossip can easily infiltrate

our conversations. It's one of the quote to respectable sins that

Jerry Bridges discusses in his book respectable sins. That's actually a book that our

ladies are going through this year at church and I'm really looking forward to that.

Or and also Matthew Mitchell, he delves into it thoroughly in his book

Resisting Gossip, which is a book I highly recommend.

So the Bible teaches that our words are powerful and reveal the

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