I want to ask you a quick question: Did you say anything this past week that you wish you could take back?
Maybe it was a text or an email you fired off before you thought twice. Maybe it was something you said at the dinner table. Maybe it was something quieter — a tone, a comment, a sigh — that landed harder than you intended.
We've all been there.
We're opening James chapter 3, verses 1 through 12 — and I'll be honest with you; this section of scripture is hard because it hits very close to home.
Maybe it was a text or an email you fired off before you thought twice. Maybe it was something you said at the dinner table. Maybe it was something quieter — a tone, a comment, a sigh — that landed harder than you intended.
We've all been there.
We're opening James chapter 3, verses 1 through 12 — and I'll be honest with you; this section of scripture is hard because it hits very close to home.
Consider this: Did you know the Bible addresses the tongue, our words, and our speech over 150 times?
Not once. Not twice. Over 150 times — across Proverbs, the Psalms, the Gospels, the letters of Paul. God keeps coming back to this. Over and over and over again.
Why would He do that?
We're going to find out.
James is going to ask us some hard questions. Things like —
Why would He do that?
We're going to find out.
James is going to ask us some hard questions. Things like —
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Why does the same mouth that worships God on Sunday tear people down on Monday?
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Why can we tame lions and train dolphins but nobody has ever tamed the human tongue?
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What does it actually look like when the Holy Spirit gets ahold of our words?
James isn't lecturing. He is holding up a mirror!
