Hello this is Ashley Chase welcoming you to the Mark Driscoll podcast.

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All right, this is going to be super fun.

If you've got a Bible, go to a New Testament book called James.

It's written by Jesus Kid Brother,

and we tend to think of Bible teachers theologians scholars as coming

out of institutions with formal educations that's not the situation with James I call

him the blue collar scholar of the new

testament his dad is Joseph his mom is married he grows up in a rural small town

poor family peasant he's going to work with his dad as a little boy. His dad's a carpenter, but nonetheless, the spirit of God is so strong in James that he grows up to serve his big brother Jesus as his Lord and Savior and write this amazing book of the Bible. So what we're

finding ourselves studying today is the topic of how does faith work when you

get angry. And so what happens is there are times in life that we need to take our faith and we need to put it to work because faith does work.

So we're in James Chapter 1 verses 19 through 27 and we're going to talk about some practical and some personal stuff today

probably some stuff you don't want to necessarily even think about because maybe

you're ashamed of it you're embarrassed by it you're struggling with it or you're embarrassed by it, you're struggling with it, or you've sort of surrendered to it in a negative way.

God wants to heal it today. God wants to deliver you today.

So as we get into these personal and practical matters,

two things I want you to know up front,

God is your father.

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