"Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only what is useful for building up, as there is need, so that your words may give grace to those who hear."  

Have you ever known one of those people who speaks with such beauty that it gives pause.  Have you ever known one whose words give grace?  I have.  My New Testament Professor in seminary, Sze-Kar Wan was one.  It was a thing of beauty to hear him speak.  He used words like Vermeer used a paint brush.  There was clarity, precision and pure loveliness in the way he chose his words and spoke his sentences.  It did not matter if he was presenting a simple idea or a deeply complex theology, I always left his presence feeling "built up", like I had just received a beautiful, grace-filled gift and I was grateful for it.

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