Show Don't Tell: Psalm 140
Vivid sensory description for preaching Psalm 140
This is a show dont tell prompt on homiletics and preaching technique for adults.
Instead of saying "Deliver me from evil people," taste the venom. Of David. "Rescue me, LORD, from evildoers; protect me from the violent, who devise evil plans in their hearts and stir up war every day." Daily war, constant plotting. "They make their tongues as sharp as a serpent's; the poison of vipers is on their lips." Serpent tongue, viper venom—words as poison.…
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