Word Is Out

"We who preach and write, do so in a manner different from which the Scriptures have been written. We write while we make progress. We learn something new every day. We speak as we still knock for understanding...If anyone criticizes me when I have said what is right, he does me an injustice. But I would be more angry with the one who praises me and takes what I have written for Gospel truth than I would be with the one who criticizes me unfairly. Augustine
Grace To all,
Mark Hamby

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Name: Mark Hamby
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Friday, July 11, 2008

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When there is a loss of language, there is a loss of childhood, and a loss
of adulthood, which leads to a loss of civilization according to Neil
Postman, one of the world's leading cultural critics. Today more than the
last hundred years, language skills are plummeting as they are being
replaced with images which has numbed our children's ability to think,
imagine, and create....Isaiah 26:3 states "you will keep him in perfect
peace whose mind is stayed upon you, because he trusts him." The word mind
in Hebrew means to form, imagine, to frame, create; its noun form carries
the idea of a potter. When our mind is framed upon the Word of God and God's
thoughts, we are kept in perfect peace. Children and adults today are
riddled with the most stress filled and anxiety filled lives than we have
had in decades. Tv thought to relax people is now known actually to create
more stress. Great stories that awaken the moral conscience on the other
hand, have a calming effect and even help individuals to think with
logically connected thought patterns which helps to increase comprehension,
lower fear, and build confidence and character.

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