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Somebody said something about you once. Somebody else repeated it. Eventually you started saying it yourself.
That is how a lie becomes a wall.
Scripture told us long before psychology did. Life and death are in the power of the tongue. As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. Words are never neutral. Repeated long enough, they stop sounding like opinions and start sounding like facts. About a child. About a family. About a whole community.
Teresa Robertson has spent her career in the rooms where this happens. Classrooms. Case files. Kitchen tables. Community meetings. In What Are You Echoing? she works through twelve short chapters on how lies get built into prisons and how truth takes them apart.
Painted prisons that look like blessings. Prison riots that keep everyone fighting each other instead of finding the door. Comfort that is really just survival wearing better clothes.
Every chapter is grounded in Scripture and ends with three questions and a page to answer them. The work is not in the reading. It is in what you notice about your own voice while you read.
Built for personal study or for a group working through it together over twelve weeks.
Bring a pen.
Somebody said something about you once. Somebody else repeated it. Eventually you started saying it yourself.
That is how a lie becomes a wall.
Scripture told us long before psychology did. Life and death are in the power of the tongue. As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. Words are never neutral. Repeated long enough, they stop sounding like opinions and start sounding like facts. About a child. About a family. About a whole community.
Teresa Robertson has spent her career in the rooms where this happens. Classrooms. Case files. Kitchen tables. Community meetings. In What Are You Echoing? she works through twelve short chapters on how lies get built into prisons and how truth takes them apart.
Painted prisons that look like blessings. Prison riots that keep everyone fighting each other instead of finding the door. Comfort that is really just survival wearing better clothes.
Every chapter is grounded in Scripture and ends with three questions and a page to answer them. The work is not in the reading. It is in what you notice about your own voice while you read.
Built for personal study or for a group working through it together over twelve weeks.
Bring a pen.