Thoughts from Within

  How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? Job 6:25 It is my nature, as it is with many others, to lash out and criticize things contrary to my will and opinion. When difficulties arise from dissenting opinion, my flesh wants to use words in a bitter fashion to persuade them to the truth as I see it. God, however, is not pleased with that reaction. What He wants is for us to use our words rightly (Pr. 15:26) -- to bring glory and honor to Him. Call it holy public relations if you will. Crisis management was just one of the many topics covered while studying the role of a public relations worker as a college student. Although a position in PR/Communications was not one I desired after graduation, I'm certainly glad I had the opportunity to learn effective ways of maintaining a positive outlook for an organization. During my time in college, I had the opportunity to intern under my university's public relations director and its assistant PR dire...

    "In football they have a huddle. The goal of the huddle is to give you thirty seconds to call the play —that is why they give you a huddle. At a professional football game, there may be 60,000 people watching you huddle; they don’t mind you taking thirty seconds to call the play. They understand that you have to get organized. You have to know where you are going to go, the ends need to know where they are going to go, the quarterback needs to know where he is going to go, and the backs need to know where they are going to go. A huddle is a necessary part of playing the game. But let me inform you, if you do not already know, 60,000 people do not pay $20 a ticket to watch you huddle. See, people don’t come to football games to watch the huddle. They want to see if their team can overcome the opposition who is daring them to snap the ball and move down the field to score. What they want to know is does your practice work? Now what Christians often do is get high on their ...