In his August 2, 2023, article, “Acts 2 & the Tongues Controversy,” Shane Rosenthal explores what Luke actually says in reporting on the astounding miracle of language on that first Pentecost in ad 31. What occurred that day does not support what the Pentecostal movement claims. . . . in …
I wrote this essay, “Hijacking Our Language,” for the January 12, 2007, issue of CGG Weekly. “For then I will restore to the peoples a pure language, that they all may call on the name of the LORD, to serve Him with one accord.” —Zephaniah 3:9 The English language is …
Dr. Jon D. Payne has written an excellent article, “Words Matter: Recovering Godly Speech in a Culture of Profanity,” on the rampant use of foul language in our society. I have also noticed just how pervasive it is throughout our culture, with many of the four-letter words we were punished …
As much as we talk, we should all be experts on language, at least the one we grew up speaking. When we were just infants, we began absorbing the broad strokes of our native tongue, and within a few years, without any real instruction, we were speaking in full sentences …
