FAH in 5 Minutes: Be Quick to Listen

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

Parenting, Relationships, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

There is not a more sanctifying set of verses in the Bible than James 1:19-20, "...be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger, for human anger does not accomplish God's righteousness" (CSB). So what happens when we're slow to listen, quick to speak, and quick to anger, especially with our spouse and kids? Today's 5 minutes is about how we can be quick to listen, but also how to make it right with our loved ones when we get it wrong. Because we will.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Famous at Home in five minutes.
0:04.0	Practical insights for creating a family of connection, celebration, and purpose.
0:10.0	Be quick to listen.
0:12.0	You know, as we talk about families of connection, this is a big one.
0:17.0	And I think as it relates to our spiritual growth, there is no greater verse or set of
0:23.5	verses that speak into our sanctification are growing in Jesus and becoming more like his character
0:30.5	than James 1119 and 20. It says, be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to become angry, because human anger does
0:42.4	not accomplish God's righteousness.
0:45.4	And I think about that often as it relates to when I explode on Christy.
0:52.7	I was going to say, how are you going to describe that? I was trying to figure that out. Lose my mind. Lose my mind on Christy. I'm going to say, how are you going to describe that?
0:54.6	I was trying to figure that out.
0:55.4	Lose my mind.
0:56.2	Lose my mind on Christy.
0:58.2	Because I don't really explode.
0:59.8	You aren't.
1:00.7	I'm more of an exploder than you are.
1:02.6	You said it, I didn't.
1:05.3	I can own it.
1:07.1	We're our kids.
1:08.6	Yeah.
1:09.3	And the big question to ask ourselves as we do that, because a lot of times we either
1:14.2	catch ourselves in the moment doing it or we're getting ready to and we don't even
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