Are you impressed by seventy-five cent words? It's the day after Thanksgiving and your wife has gone off to the mall to second-mortgage the homestead. You've got the day off, but the turkey looks unappetizing, the football games are over, so you've discovered this book. After reading a bit of this material you may be unimpressed with its content, which consists mostly of two bit words conveying pedestrian concepts and simple theology. You are not at all like simple-minded Winnie-the-Pooh who said, "I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me." After all, you are well educated. You see yourself in the same class as William F. Buckley. Broadcaster Michael Guido once attributed the success of his ministry to: "I keep my message on the level of a third grade student." And the communicator God chose to write much of the New Testament, the Apostle Paul, said this, "For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel--not with words of human wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power" (1 Cor. 1:17 NIV). Sometimes less is more. Reflections
