...policy that have led to her critically weakened military strength. CHAPTER EIGHT MILITARY VULNERABILITY For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle? 1 Corinthians 14:8 Parti Spiritual Blindness and America's Military Disarmament What tumultuous event...

...tongues was that it was as a "trumpet that gives an uncertain sound." Paul asks in 1 Corinthians 14:8, "For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?" He goes on to say that unless the message is clear it has to take a lesser place in the list of gifts....

...manifest in the early church by the illustration of the sounding of the trumpet as the signal for battle. "For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle? Just so you, unless with your tongue you give forth intelligent [eusemon, 'plain' or 'perspicuous']...

...pound on a piano, but one should play a tune. Just so, when you go to talk, it ought to have meaning. "For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?" Do Not Use Words in Services People Cannot Understand In the army there was a certain call for morning...

...celibacy, will draw outstanding young men — so goes the theory, sometimes invoking Paul's admonition "If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?" (1 Corinthians 14:8). It is true that a completely amorphous priesthood is unlikely to attract many...

...is in the streets. Proverbs 26:13. See also IDLENESS; LEISURE; SLEEP AND SLEEPLESSNESS. LEADERSHIP 2 If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle? / Corinthians 14:8. (This provided the title for Gen. Maxwell Taylor's The Uncertain Trumpet, 1960.)...

...Title. E902.D56 2004 306.2'0973'090511—dc22 2004045155 For James, Julia, and Margot With All My Love For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle? I Corinthians 14: 8 Contents Introduction 1 Divided Against Ourselves: A Letter to Some Friends 1. Put on a Compassionate...

...harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? 8. For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle? 9. So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known...

...convey emotions as well as data, and both are vital in motivating action. I Corinthians 14:8 says, for if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battk? One reason I'm concerned about this is that we, who are privileged to have people listen to...

...What is going on may be easy to explain. Bishop Swing has been giving his flock a mixed message, and "if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?" (1 Cor. 14:8, KJV) Despite the foregoing attacks on traditional Christianity, Swing still considers...