{"id":2258559,"date":"2026-01-30T19:45:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2258559"},"modified":"2026-01-30T19:45:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:45:04","slug":"taming-the-tongue-gossip-slander-respectable-sins-that-destroy-your-witness-jonny-ardavanis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/taming-the-tongue-gossip-slander-respectable-sins-that-destroy-your-witness-jonny-ardavanis\/","title":{"rendered":"Taming the Tongue: Gossip, Slander &#038; Respectable Sins That Destroy Your Witness &#8211; Jonny Ardavanis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hUdLg__FayY?autoplay=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>How powerful are your words\u2014really? In this episode, we open James 1:26 and James 3 to expose the \u201crespectable sins\u201d of the tongue: gossip, slander, lying, crude talk, and careless words. Scripture is clear: the tongue reveals the heart, and unchecked speech can lead to self-deception and spiritual harm.<\/p>\n<p>This episode is sponsored by The Master&#8217;s University. To learn more about how you can invest in a college education devoted to Christ &#038; Scripture, visit: https:\/\/www.masters.edu<\/p>\n<p>We walk through five biblical realities about the tongue\u2014why it\u2019s powerful, restless, foul, prone to lying, and deadly through gossip\u2014and why believers must bridle the tongue for the glory of God. If you\u2019ve ever brushed off gossip as \u201cnot that serious,\u201d these passages will challenge you.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe for more Bible teaching and practical discipleship conversations.<\/p>\n<p> \ud83d\udcac Question: Which \u201ctongue sin\u201d do you think Christians minimize most\u2014gossip, sarcasm, exaggeration, or crude joking?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Our Savior Who Prays: The Prayer That Secures the Saints\u2019 Eternal Glory (The Great Chapters of the Bible)\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"500\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_KcirlcbXX35snE&#038;asin=1883973090&#038;tag=maas\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The link for the study questions is here: <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.jmacarthurpublishing.com\/free-resources<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hUdLg__FayY\">Video Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How powerful are your words\u2014really? In this episode, we open James 1:26 and James 3 to expose the \u201crespectable sins\u201d of the tongue: gossip, slander, lying, crude talk, and careless words. Scripture is clear: the tongue reveals the heart, and unchecked speech can lead to self-deception and spiritual harm. This episode is sponsored by The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2258560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2258559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769802303_maxresdefault.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2258559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2258561,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258559\/revisions\/2258561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2258560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2258559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2258559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2258559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}