Simply put - I live by language. I am responsible weekly to research and prepare a message making complex passages of Scripture understandable to an age range between 5-70. It requires me to not only understand how language works together in terms of how it sounds, what images it draws from, but have sufficiently clear internal logic that even a kindergartener can get a basic grasp of it. Because of time restraints, I have to be economical in the language I use - brevity is indeed the soul of...