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The Power of Words
Forget the old rhyme about sticks and stones— your words can leave marks we carry for years. Words matter; in fact, they carry the power of life and death. Drawing from Proverbs 18:21 and Ephesians 4:29, we walk through the real stakes of using careless words: blessing or cursing, building up or tearing down, soothing a situation or inflaming it. Along the way, we unpack negativity bias—the brain’s tilt toward the harsh and the hurtful—and show how a specific word choice can counterbalance that pull.
You’ll hear a simple story about a compliment that changed a teenager’s day and why small…
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