Comments on: Think, then speak http://drjeffadams.com/2010/07/27/think-then-speak/ Hi! This is my chance to chat with you about anything that pops into my mind. That means it is usually unedited and unpolished, just like conversations with friends ought to be. So, grab a cup of coffee or tea and let's talk! Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:45:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jeff Adams http://drjeffadams.com/2010/07/27/think-then-speak/#comment-2986 Jeff Adams Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:29:13 +0000 http://drjeffadams.com/?p=2894#comment-2986 Ha! Both Mike and Tom admit to feeling the same way - I just want my life back! Add me to the club. I think we all feel that way at times. The art of biblical tongue control is to contain our feelings when not appropriate or beneficial for others. That's the hard part, huh? Thanks for the comments! Ha! Both Mike and Tom admit to feeling the same way – I just want my life back! Add me to the club. I think we all feel that way at times. The art of biblical tongue control is to contain our feelings when not appropriate or beneficial for others. That’s the hard part, huh? Thanks for the comments!

]]> By: Tom Rigot Sr http://drjeffadams.com/2010/07/27/think-then-speak/#comment-2985 Tom Rigot Sr Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:11:50 +0000 http://drjeffadams.com/?p=2894#comment-2985 There are I times when I can relate to BP's CEO's comments "I just want my life back". Sometimes circumstances of my work take over and push through the day to places I don't want to go, conversations I don't want to have and news I don't want to deliver to my clients. But, that is the reqirement of the field and profession I have chosen. I may only have been handed the corporate level decisions that affect my clients and took no personal part in passing of those actions but I am the face of the Corporation to my clients and therefore I must hear their complaints and respond to their problems with compasion and understading. That after all is what they (my clients) pay me for! Those 2 verses in Proverbs that you mention are right to the point of what I needed to hear and I suspect they would be proper for Mr. Hayward right about now also! Thanks Jeff for the insight. There are I times when I can relate to BP’s CEO’s comments “I just want my life back”. Sometimes circumstances of my work take over and push through the day to places I don’t want to go, conversations I don’t want to have and news I don’t want to deliver to my clients. But, that is the reqirement of the field and profession I have chosen. I may only have been handed the corporate level decisions that affect my clients and took no personal part in passing of those actions but I am the face of the Corporation to my clients and therefore I must hear their complaints and respond to their problems with compasion and understading. That after all is what they (my clients) pay me for! Those 2 verses in Proverbs that you mention are right to the point of what I needed to hear and I suspect they would be proper for Mr. Hayward right about now also! Thanks Jeff for the insight.

]]> By: Mike http://drjeffadams.com/2010/07/27/think-then-speak/#comment-2984 Mike Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:09:56 +0000 http://drjeffadams.com/?p=2894#comment-2984 Jeff Sometimes when you are preaching, I am thinking how important it must be and has to be to weigh each and every word that comes out of your mouth...Seriously as you know a spoken word can change the direction of someones life...Alot of people don't go to the Bible as their final authority...I can just here it now in peoples home, "Well Jeff Said"...Man, now that is alot of responsibility... They probably do not quote you right anyway or just make it sound a little better to favor their side in a "discussion "with their better half... I was thinking of statement " I want my life back"...Though it was probably not a good thing to say but I understood what he meant... Mike Jeff

Sometimes when you are preaching, I am thinking how important it must be and has to be to weigh each and every word that comes out of your mouth…Seriously as you know a spoken word can change the direction of someones life…Alot of people don’t go to the Bible as their final authority…I can just here it now in peoples home, “Well Jeff Said”…Man, now that is alot of responsibility… They probably do not quote you right anyway or just make it sound a little better to favor their side in a “discussion “with their better half…

I was thinking of statement ” I want my life back”…Though it was probably not a good thing to say but I understood what he meant… Mike

]]> By: Costarricense http://drjeffadams.com/2010/07/27/think-then-speak/#comment-2983 Costarricense Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:16:20 +0000 http://drjeffadams.com/?p=2894#comment-2983 I read a chapter of Proverbs a day too :-) I started last year when a message at my church challenged us to do it for a whole year... I took on the challenge and I can't seem to stop, now I need it daily. It has been so challenging in my life and I have learned a lot about being wise with my words, my actions and remembering God is who He is, no one is like him and I REALLY need Him. And now, off to get my portion this morning. Buenos días! I read a chapter of Proverbs a day too :-) I started last year when a message at my church challenged us to do it for a whole year… I took on the challenge and I can’t seem to stop, now I need it daily. It has been so challenging in my life and I have learned a lot about being wise with my words, my actions and remembering God is who He is, no one is like him and I REALLY need Him. And now, off to get my portion this morning. Buenos días!

]]> By: christine http://drjeffadams.com/2010/07/27/think-then-speak/#comment-2982 christine Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:48:20 +0000 http://drjeffadams.com/?p=2894#comment-2982 Reminds me of every mother's admonitions: If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all. "Actions speak louder than words" and "reputation is everything" seems to be a rewording of this proverb - Prov. 20:11 "Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work [be] pure, and whether [it be] right." Reminds me of every mother’s admonitions:

If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.

“Actions speak louder than words” and “reputation is everything” seems to be a rewording of this proverb – Prov. 20:11 “Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work [be] pure, and whether [it be] right.”

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