That little piece of flesh that is in our mouth can change the course of our lives and it's like a spark that can set a forest on fire and it's like an animal that can't be tamed and he goes and said, we have been able to achieve mastery and dominion over the animal world and have been able to tame all kinds of

beasts of the field. But no one as of yet has been able to tame the tongue.

James Chapter 3 deals with the tongue and communication, the power that this small organ has to bless or to curse.

And if there's anything we all need more help with living in this digital

and social media age it's wisdom when it comes to speech. You're listening to

renewing your mind as we conclude a week-long study in the letters of the

New Testament.

James's letter in particular is filled with practical insights and wisdom. It would be easy reading the third chapter to assume it was

written in 2024 to help the church reflect on some of the dangers of social media.

Today's message from Er.C. Sproll will introduce you to James and other epistles in the New Testament.

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dot all. Well here's R.C. Sproll on the letters of James, Peter, and John.

In the New Testament we have that group of books that is called The general epistles in which is normally incorporated the

book of Hebrews but in addition to Hebrews we have some other books such as the book of James, then we have the

book of Jude, the epistles of St Peter, and the epistles of John.

Now for the most part, these are all short and brief

writings, and so we're going to lump them all together

for this segment today.

And we'll start by looking first of all at the book of James

and James is important for several reasons the first of which is that of all of the

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