James #6 - How does faith work when you speak your mind

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Mark Driscoll

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🗓️ 17 October 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In this sermon from James 3:1-12, Pastor Mark talks about the power of the tongue and that, in the flesh, it wants to destroy us and we can use it for evil. But, the Holy Spirit can transform our tongue so we can use it for good.

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Ashley Chase welcoming you to the Mark Driscoll Podcast.
0:04.2	For more content from my dad, Pastor Mark, senior pastor here at the Trinity Church in
0:07.9	Scottsdale, Arizona, visit realfafed.com where you'll find study guides to go along with
0:12.7	each sermon series as he preaches verse by verse 3 books of the Bible, daily devotions,
0:17.6	free e-books, and more.
0:19.2	Now grab your Bibles and get ready for today's sermon.
0:21.7	Ah, howdy, we're in a great book at the Bible called James.
0:25.7	If you've got a Bible, go to James chapter 3 and the book is written by Jesus, little brother.
0:31.1	Imagine being the guy who shared a bunk bed with the Lord.
0:34.2	And so he saw Jesus grow up, live, die on the cross, rise, return to heaven, and he went
0:40.1	right into ministry, telling everybody about his big brother, Jesus.
0:44.0	And what I like to say is that James is the blue collar scholar of the New Testament.
0:48.6	He didn't go to a university, he wasn't formally trained in some big institution, but with
0:53.6	Jesus being his big brother and Mary and Joseph being his mom and dad, he had a lot of deep
0:58.7	insight.
0:59.7	But for him, Christianity is really about practical life.
1:02.8	What do you do?
1:03.8	So the theme for our series is faith works.
1:05.9	How do you take your faith and put it to work in the normal, daily things of life.
1:10.2	And so today's question is, how does faith work when you want to speak your mind?
1:14.5	Now I know not you people because you're all emotionally healthy and filled with the
1:18.0	spirit and you never get frustrated, agitated or angry.
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