sincere versus insincere words or perhaps between consistently shallow versus meaningful words. Everything is wrong with insincere and predictably shallow words. They encourage no one. The prophet Jeremiah indicted the religious leaders of his day for healing the wounds of God’s people superficially (Jer. 6:14). A physician who diagnosed a potentially fatal condition that surgery could cure and who then prescribed lots of liquid and two aspirin a day would be guilty of malpractice. The priests of