One of the greatest lessons I have ever learned as a preacher and as a communicator is this - it is not only important to mean what you say, it is just as important to say what you mean. I remember a story about Yogi Berra, who was sitting up on a platform with the wife of the Mayor of New York City. He and his teammates (the New York Yankees) were being honored for winning another World Series and the Mayor's wife looked over at Yogi and said, "Yogi, you look real cool today." Yogi looked over at her and said, "You don't look so hot yourself!"

If you don't say exactly what you mean and mean exactly what you say, then you can never really communicate what people need to hear and what you want people to know. I read a story about a man who was driving down the road, in a convertible, with …