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February 10 2009 at 3:43 pm

Wise Words from Paul Tripp

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In his message on the power of words (see Eph. 4:29) this past Sunday, Mike Bradshaw quoted two excellent passages from Paul Tripp’s book, War of Words. Since I can never seem to write fast enough to get them down, I thought I’d post them here for anyone who missed them:

“Talk seems so normal, so ordinary, so unimportant, so harmless. Yet there are few things we do that are more important. Words are powerful, important, significant. It was meant to be that way. When we speak, it must be with the realization that God has given our words significance. He has ordained for them to be important. Words were significant at Creation and at the Fall. They are significant to redemption. God has given words value. So we must do all we can to assign words the importance Scripture gives them.”

“If my heart is the source of my sin problem, then lasting change must always travel through the pathway of my heart. It is not enough to alter my behavior or to change my circumstances. Christ transforms people by radically changing their hearts.”





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