Hey, we're so glad you're here because today on Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, Rick's sharing the biblical

wisdom we need to have great relationships. And let's admit it, we can all use that. And now here's Pastor

Rick Warren with the final part of a message called Resolving Conflict. Proverbs 12, verse 18 says this.

Reckless words, that's the kind you say in an argument

that you weren't thinking through.

Reckless words pierced like a sword,

and you've all been pierced by reckless words

by people in your life.

But the tongue of the wise brings healing. In other words, foolish words hurt,

wise words heal, and it's my choice. You never get your point across by being cross.

You are never persuasive when you are abrasive. You tell the truth tactfully.

If you don't tell it tactfully, it's not going to be received.

Truth without love is resisted.

Truth wrapped in love is received.

People grow faster, people change faster, people change easier when truth is wrapped in love.

People must trust you before you can tell them the truth, and they learn to trust you by proving that you love them, that you accept them.

And when you prove that, then you can say things that you couldn't normally say, but you have to love them

before you tell them the truth.

Ephesians 429,

Do not use harmful words.

Well, in that case, a lot of us wouldn't have a whole lot to say.

Do not use harmful words, but use only helpful words, the kind that build up and

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