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The success of a ministry is never the result of the work of an individual, but a work of a community.

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and applies it to the details of everyday life. Won't you be part of that? Welcome to the Paul

Tripp podcast where pastor and bestselling author Dr. Paul David Tripp connects the transforming power

of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

It's impossible to think about street-level Christianity without considering the words that we speak.

In today's episode, we pick back up with Paul's sermon series in the book of James, and in today's

sermon, Paul teaches from James III to reveal this scary and humbling truth.

Your words always reveal the true character and condition of your heart.

Here's Paul.

You can turn on your Bibles or your bulletins to James 3.

I couldn't help but think of an incident in my own life as I thought of these hard-to-read, hard-to-hear

words of James III.

I've always had a bit of a struggle in my marriage.

It's with the issue of time.

Llewala was raised in Cuba.

She has a bit of an island and a Latin view of time.

Some of you understand.

I was raised by a man who thought that the sole litmus test of the value of the human being was punctuality. And there was one Easter morning in the trip family. We

were attending a church at that point who had decided the best way to celebrate Easter

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