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Gatlinburg, TN
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Vacation Destination.
It’s in the Smokey Mountains.
There’s tons of shopping, scenery, national park, theme park, Hotels, conference centers, and cabins!
Great place to visit!
Actually, where me and Jessica had our honeymoon!
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About a year ago, a forest fire, changed all of that.
This tourist destination all of a sudden became like a death trap.
There wasn’t much warning.
A small fire on a hiking trail spread, and multiplied.
Check out this video that shows some of the destruction
Play news video
What does a forest fire have to do with us?
Words are powerful
How do you use your words?
That’s what we’re talking about.
We are mean to each other!
It seems like I can’t walk down the hallway at school and not hear someone getting made fun of.
It seems like this is all the time, everywhere we go, non-stop.
Anyone could get made fun of for the way they look, the things they say, the things they like.
Life is scary and tough when we are constantly wondering when the next time someone is going to be making a joke at our expense, or call us a name we don’t like, or criticize something that is totally out of our control.
We’re mean to strangers.
We make fun of people we don’t even know.
We watch them fail and then talk about them anonymously.
We say things about people all the time that we’d never or shouldn’t say to their face.
We’re mean to people we know.
We’re mean to our friends.
Why are we mean to others?
Have you thought about this?
Why do we make fun of other people?
So people will think we’re funny?
To be cool?
Because everyone else is?
To make ourselves stronger?
Hurt People, Hurt People
It’s a cliche statement, but it’s true.
Usually the people that are hurting others are the ones who have already been hurt by someone else.
Words are powerful
talk through the illustrations above: bit/horse, rudder/sailboat, spark/forest fire and revisit the scripture above to do so, so illustrations as we go.
This passage says the tongue - not really the tongue, but our words are powerful.
They steer our life like a bit controls a horse, and a rudder maneuvers a ship.
Something as simple as words can cause as much destruction as a forest fire.
We have a deadly weapon - our tongue/words!
It’s dangerous.
Y’all are reckless with your words.
With our same mouth/tongue we use words to praise God and then a moment later we’re using our words to put down, insult, talk behind someone’s back.
“You kiss your mom with that mouth”.
Stop being mean.
Words are Powerful.
How are YOU using them?
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