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Speak Love
Copyright © 2013 by Annie F. Downs

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Downs, Annie F., 1980-

Speak love : making your words matter / Annie F. Downs.

     pages cm

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-0-310-74287-6 (softcover : alk. paper)

1. Oralcommunication—religiousaspects—Christianity. 2. Interpersonal communication—religious aspects—Christianity. 3. Language and languages—religious aspects—Christianity. 4. Love—religious aspects—Christianity. I. Title.

BV4597.53.C64D69 2013

241'.672—dc232013024682

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Stories told in this book are retold to the best of the author’s memory. Due to the nature of some stories, certain names have been changed.

Beth Moore passage on page 14 taken from Believing God: Experiencing a Fresh Explosion of Faith by Beth Moore (Nashville, TN: B&H Publishing Group, 2004), pages

Passages on page 46-47 are taken from The Magician’s Nephew by C. S. Lewis (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 1995), 52nd printing, pages 104–107. Copyright © 1955, 1985 by C. S. Lewis (Pte) Limited. Used by permission.

Epigraph on page 85 taken from God Calling by A.J. Russell (Uhrichsville, Ohio: Barbour Publishing, Inc., 2012), page 11. Copyright © John Hunt Publishing, Ltd., New Alresford, Hants, UK.

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