Birthday Bash: 1:30pm-Elaine Cooper


Elaine Cooper will be sharing on the Art of Eloquence Facebook fan page this Birthday Bash half hour.  Here is what she is offering as a prize for this half hour’s contest: The Promise of Deer Run  America’s war for freedom from England has been over for seven years, but the wounds of that conflict still haunt the minds and hearts of the residents of Deer Run. Young American veteran Nathaniel Stearns has withdrawn to a life of isolation as he awaits his father who never returned from the war. A near-tragedy in the woods brings him face-to-face with nineteen-year-old Sarah Thomsen, someone he had long admired but he assumed had eyes for another. This chance encounter opens a crack into the door of his heart as mutual affection quickly blooms. But slander and lies soon mar the budding romance, rendering both Sarah and Nathaniel wounded and untrusting as their faith in both their God and each other is shattered. Set in 1790, this book continues the story of the Thomsen and Lowe families as they struggle to survive in the aftermath of the war that birthed the United States. The Promise of Deer Run is Book Two in the Deer Run Saga. To win this prize, you will need to post a comment to this blog post answering this question:  Name two of your favorite Bible quotes on communication listed on our Quotes and Scriptures page! We’ll be picking a winner from among the correct answers and contacting you via email so make sure you leave your email address on your comment post. Don’t forget to subscribe to our newsletter for another chance to win a Birthday Bash prize from Art of Eloquence!  And you might want to subscribe to the blog RSS feed so you don’t miss a contest today! (DISCLAIMER: Communication FUNdamentals, our blog, normally only posts three times a week (MWF) but today we are having a new post/contest each half hour of the Birthday Bash.) Congratulations to our winner: Katie!

11 comments


  • Penney Douglas

    “Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.” Colossians 4:6
    “Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.” -Proverbs 18:21


  • Katie

    “Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:”-James 1:19
    “A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;” Ecclesiastes 3:7


  • Rebecca C

    “He who answers before listening-that is his folly and his shame.” Proverbs 18:13
    “A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.” Proverbs 25:11


  • Tara Jenner

    “A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.” Luke 6:45
    “Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.” -Proverbs 21:23


  • Fibia

    “Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.” Colossians 4:6
    “Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.” Ephesians 4:29


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