Tag Archives: praise

• Refusing to be Encouraged

  Posted on April 24, 2017 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

  You know how some people can’t take a compliment? You tell them “great job,” but they deflect the praise or explain it away. Some more pious folks will immediately point to God and say that it’s all of God. No it’s not. Sure, we are to cast down our golden crowns before God in recognition […]

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• When Words Fail

  Posted on January 28, 2013 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    As part of my studies in college, I had to take a course in linguistics. I remember a professor explaining the Whorfian Hypothesis, which asserted that our concept of the world cannot exceed the limits of our language to describe it.  In other words, only as we have the vocabulary to capture something can […]

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