Speaking in Tongues works!
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It works! Absolutely. Started a month or two ago, and I have already seen the miraculous manifest in my life and in the life of my family. Blessed be God!
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To the outside world, strangers, and casual acquaintances, I am not a talkative person. The complete opposite is true with those whom I feel most comfortable with - my family, friends, and bible study ladies. Unfortunately, if you spend enough time  in my inner circle you are bound to hear a few un-christian things spill from my lips. One such occasion happened three years ago and to this day that relationship has not fully recovered. If your words have ever bested you, if you've ever spoken without thinking, reacted out of anger, commented when you should have held your peace, or pounced on an opportunity to get a dig in (that should cover most of you)then this book is for you.

In order to benefit fully from Karen Ehman's book Keep It Shut: What To Say, How To Say It, And When To Say Nothing At All, you must be willing to undergo a little self-examination. Karen tells of her own tongue-taming battle before sharing biblical lessons from Joseph, Daniel, and even King Herod. Each story lends itself to an invaluable piece of advice that we can apply to our own conversations. Readers are asked to evaluate their daily intake of the Word (Luke 6:45), our motives for speaking, and our skills as listeners. Some of her best advice pertains to when to hold our tongue, what to share and what is gossip, and how to defuse heated verbal exchanges.
My copy of Keep It Shut is full of post-it flags marking quotations and tips I want to return to. The advice is biblically based, socially relevant, and has the potential to prevent future speech faux pas when you put them into practice. Women speak more words in a day than men (that's a fact), so it stands to reason that women may need more help learning what to say, how to say it, and when to zip it! For this reason I highly recommend this book to Women's Ministry groups and book clubs to read and discuss together. Ladies (and gentlemen) this book may be just what you need to improve the emotional climate in your home, to open the lines of communication in your family, and to prevent future meltdowns. I give Keep It Shut 5/5 stars.

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Bonnie Landry's book easily explains how to simplify your homeschool studies of spelling tests, reading, writing, copywork, into one beautiful, bonding activity of one-on-one dictation with your child.  I tried her advice with happy results from the first day forward.  My children are happier to have less schoolwork since dictation consolidates many areas of language arts and they were happier to have each recieved personal attention and teaching from mom each day.  They are coming up to me and hugging me later in the day after we cozied up to do dictation together!  Bonnie is right: it's an activity that brings you closer together.
The booklet is a quick read, so one morning my husband found it on the table, read it during breakfast and then proceeded to conduct the day's dictation lesson with one of the kids himself!
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This protocol works!  It is true recovery from Autism which results in a nerotypical life.  I highly recommend this book and protocol!
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Super cool book! I had my tonsils taken out as a kid, and the operation made my voice really high pitched. I'm 36 now and my voice, up until I read this book, sounded still slightly high pitched, in a way I sounded like a teenager. Talking always made my throat feel stressed and strained. This book helped me talk correctly and now my voice is more rounded. One of the best things about this book is that all of the voice exercises are explained right in the beginning of the book, seriously everything written past chapter 2 is just stories of who this doctor treated, such as celebrities and whoever. So technically you don'l have to read the entire book. And not only that, the exercises work almost immediately. After about 2 weeks of practicing my voice was sounding really good, and now I just do the exercises a couple times a week, where as I was doing them 2-3 times a day. The exercises only take 2-3 minutes to do as well. I wish I had this book years ago!!!
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In a gentle, logical way, the author invites the reader to share his and his wife's experience in seeking and finally receiving the Baptism in the Holy Spirit with the evidence of "speaking in tongues"--that is, receiving and using a spiritual language so as to pray directly from your spirit (which is joined to the Holy Spirit--1 Cor. 6:17) without going through the brain (thus "leaning not on your own understanding"--Pr. 3:5).

Don and his wife had to be convinced that this wasn't some crazy thing experienced by crazy people, a common belief despite it being standard operating procedure for Christians in the Bible, especially in the Book of Acts. For readers already convinced, it is an exhilarating, informative, faith-building narrative. For anyone, it clearly explains the reason for this gift, which even some Christians who have it don't understand.

It was written some time ago, so the denominations referred to have in many cases changed their positions on some issues, and some people mentioned have changed their reputation as well.
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I used to sing rock & roll, forcing my chest voice into my head range rather than using my head voice, and had never learned to use my head voice. I always considered myself a contralto and figured my head voice was mostly useless. After just the first lesson with this method I was able to feel the difference between using my head voice and forcing my chest voice up and was amazed at how hard I used to work to hit those notes. Now, four months later, I can actually sing mezzo soprano with quite a bit of ease. I am now able to cross my switch point going up without hanging onto the chest voice, and going down it's become seamless. And I haven't even done all the lessons yet! There are some lessons I am unable to do properly because I have never been able to trill my tongue, but there are enough lessons that muddling past those has not been a problem. I would highly recommend this to ANYONE who has trouble with their head voice and/or their switch point!!!
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John MacArthur has taken the answers to charismatic questions from the Bible and has put them in easy to find categories.  For instance, somebody told me that they thought that speaking in tongues was given too hard a time by Baptists.  I knew he was wrong, but didn't know exactly how to prove it.  I looked in the speaking in tongues chapter and was immediately directed to the verses in the Bible regarding the subject, the historical context, and the original Greek meaning.  A wonderfully complete and easy-flowing answer to my question.
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I'm excited to give this review for several reasons. The main one being the fact that I am hopeful that I'll one day be speaking fluent German! Author Eileen McAree's book `52 Weeks of Family German' is the first book I've read cover to cover about  learning to speak another language. I was somewhat skeptical just by looking at the title. I assumed that it would be filled with a neverending assortment of gibberish about a language that I doubted I could really learn. But right from the beginning I realized this would be a different experience. Author Eileen McAree does an exceptional job on making it easy to be excited about the German language.
She gives you easy to learn phrases that we use everyday, this allows for easy adaptation into the language. Throughout the book she also gives you tidbits of cultural information that makes you connect to not only the language but history of Germany. This book gives you the basics plus a little more to get you interested in the German language. Although very instructive, it is still up to you to follow the instructions and suggestions outlined within the pages. It'll take consistency and practice, as with anything.
I believe the most satisfying aspect of this book is the fact that teaching your children a new language is most certainly beneficial to his/her future. The activities that Eileen McAree presents will make it easy to implement a new language into their lives. Children have an innate urge to learn, and the author has honed in on this fact.
Practice makes perfect is a resounding theme in the book. Speaking and interacting with the words you've learned will ultimately make you comfortable with this new language. There are times that will require you to re-read a sentence. I found myself going back and making sure I understood what I'd just read. But this didn't deter me because I knew it was only helping me understand better.
I would recommend this book to my friends, family and strangers. I am confident that they would enjoy the information and exercises presented in 52 Weeks of Family German. I did and can't wait to initiate all 52 weeks. Kudos to Eileen McAree.

Bee L. Kirk, Author of City of the Guardians: Introducing Alex Honor
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I've read a lot of books about praying in tongues and why we should do it, but this book gives the best, most in-depth information on tongues, especially for edification, that I've ever read. Definitely a must read on the subject!
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This is an absolutely amazing book! Once again, Karen Ehman has shared about a topic we can all relate to and more importantly could use some improvement with. Her personal stories, food for thought and Biblical solutions are what I needed to read to begin to grow past this challenging task of taming my tongue so that I honor God with all I say. I love that when I was reading this book I felt  like I was sitting down with Karen as we discussed this touchy issue. She's honest, down to earth and backs it all up with Biblical truths and practical ways to discern what to say, how to say it and when to say nothing at all. Thank you Karen Ehman for such an amazing, timely book!
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The way I see it, this book doesn't make me "study" foreign languages, but definitely makes me "communicate" in a new language fast, really fast.

It doesn't advise me to buy a book or get whatever authoritative material. What it provides are ready-to-use techniques to absorb and use a new language right away.

And it works! I see obvious results from applying the skills from "The Third Ear" and I find myself enjoying learning foreign languages even more! Also very interesting is that now when I observe how people around me get frustrated about foreign languages I suddenly know why!

Oh by the way it's really a fun and easy read. Perfect if you are looking for a leisure read which benefits you beyond pleasure.
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My son is almost two years old now. It is difficult to encourage my son to imitate words and sounds. He mostly listens and he seems to prefer signing to speaking. Imagine my surprise when we were watching Little Pim for the first time together and he said new words! As I do with all his educational programs, I played "his part" repeating the important words and sentences. He usually doesn't join in, but while watching Little Pim, he said, "papa" for the first time, making his father very very happy. He only used a sign for daddy before! I'm very pleased. The method of teaching language is very intuitive, and even I picked a bit more Spanish up since I'm just a beginner myself. This is going into regular rotation in our house.
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By far the best book I have ever read on the gift of tongues.  I will be reading it over and over again.
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The Etalon Science is a new science and I think it is a revolutionary one as it is not the traditional way of speech therapy. It's true that we all are very doubtful about new things but I have done the programme and I am experiencing the benefits from it.
The Etalon science teaches us to learn the correct way of speaking unlike traditional ways that teaches us to ease our stutter.

I always believed 1 day I could get rid of my speech problem and thanks to Anna Deeter and Roman Snezhko , I am today talking correctly.

I have also done the 3 day course and today I talk rationally and I have started achieving more through the use of my rational and Etalon speech.

This programme is awesome and I personally advise anyone who is like me to do it and after that start talking rationally every time.

I have read both books "Stuttering solved" and "Speech is an Skill" and I think it is the book that everyone who stutters like me should read. It contains a lot of information about the program and explains why stuttering happens and what goes wrong when we do mistakes in speech. I strongly recommend the book to anyone that wants to learn and understand the right way to speak.
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The translator gets a 5-star for getting the Lord's message across in simple everyday conversational speech.  This makes it so easy on the brain for the person reading  no deciphering or re-interpreting necessary.  You get it the first time (if you know what I mean).  The Large Print makes reading this translation a double enjoyment for me  easy on my brain and easy on my eyes.  The seller gets a 5-star also for getting the book to me quickly and in great shape!  Thanks!!!
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This works great for those that have at least a 30 minute daily commute. The structure is such that you learn quickly and retain what you have learned. While I did not expect to be fully fluent, I just wanted to be able to communicate while in Germany for vacation - this product definitely did the trick! I wish I would have learned more words, but what I did learn will get me though most situations without having to "expect" the native Germans to speak English.