Resources on Public Speaking
Take a few minutes of your Memorial Day to listen to the story of Master Sergeant Roy Benavidez. Truthful, earnest, and orderly speeches, backed up by the speaker’s physical and moral courage, compel an audience’s attention. Seargeant Benavidez exemplifies each of these virtues as he speaks after receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor. Of the many speeches I showed my rhetoric and debate students at Westminster Christian Academy, this one became a class favorite. After President Reagan’s summary of his battlefield valor, Mr. Benavidez speaks.
Read MoreThe marriage relation lies at the very root of the social system of nations. The public morality of a people, and the private happiness of the families which compose a people, are deeply involved in the whole question of the law of marriage. . . . Happy are they, who in the matter of marriage observe three rules. The first is to marry only in the Lord, and after prayer for God’s approval and blessing. The second is not to expect too much from their partners, and to remember that marriage is, after all, the union of two sinners, and not of two angels. The third rule is to strive first and foremost for one another’s sanctification. The more holy…
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