How can you improve at listening to others? Here's Mary Cassian with a novel concept.

You put your cell phones away, put them in the drawer, turn them off, put the newspaper down,

silence anything that's going to cause you to be distracted. This is the Reviver Hearts podcast

with Nancy DeMoss Walgameth, co-author of True Woman 101, Divine Design.

For April 17, 2020, I'm Dana Gresh.

Over the past week, Mary Cassian has been giving us some helpful biblical teaching about our words.

It's all been from her book, Conversation, Peace. That's P-E-A-C-E. If you missed any of these sessions,

you can hear them at revive our hearts.com.

Today, she'll wrap up this series with a lot of practical applications.

How can you avoid distractions when you're trying to listen?

How can you show the other person you understand what they're saying?

And how can you get to deep issues that may be causing conflict?

Mary will answer those questions as she concludes this series, the power of transformed speech. We've been spending a lot of time talking

about speech and communication, and the thing I love about the Bible is that it is enormously

practical, and that it teaches us how to go about our daily lives

and that it makes a difference in our daily lives.

I want to take a look at one verse in the book of James

that gives us so much information

and there's so much good stuff packed in there

in that one little verse

that if we can just take this one verse and apply it to our lives consistently, that it will make

an enormous difference in our efforts to communicate, particularly in those relationships

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