Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast, where we

encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture. The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you by Ascension.

Using the great adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation,

discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today. It is day 351 and we are reading the conclusion of James, which is actually three chapters, James,

four, and five. We're also reading the beginning of St. Paul's letter to the Colossians,

chapters one and two, and the book of Proverbs chapter 30 verses 7 through 9. It's always the

Bible translation I'm reading from is the revised standard version, second Catholic edition. I'm using the great adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to download your own Bible in your reading plan,

as I said, I think yesterday to take off those last few days, you can visit ascensionpress.com

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stay unsubscribed and say, I made it through the entire year and didn't subscribe once. I don't care what Father Mike asked me to do. I don't care a bit. Just kidding. It is day 351, and we're reading James, chapters three, four, and five. Colossians, Letter of St. Paul to Colossians, chapters one and two, as well as the book of Proverbs, chapter 30 versus seven through nine. The letter of James, chapter 3, taming the tongue.

Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, for you know that we who teach shall be

judged with greater strictness. For we all make many mistakes, and if anyone makes no

mistakes in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.

If we put bits into the mouths of horses that they may obey us, we guide their whole bodies. Look at the ships also.

Though they are so great and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder

wherever the will of the pilot directs. So the tongue is a little member and boasts of great

things. How great a forest is

set ablaze by a small fire. And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is an unrighteous world among our

members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the cycle of nature, and set on fire by hell.

For every kind of beast and bird, a reptile and sea creature can be tamed and has been

tamed by mankind. But no human being can tame the tongue, a restless evil full of deadly poison.

With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the likeness of God.

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