Sermons on Words

James 1 (Part Six): The True Religion God Seeks

26 Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless. 27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. (James 1:26-27)

Worshiping With Our Words (Part Two)

1 Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly. 2 We all stumble in many ways. Anyone who is never at fault in what they say is perfect, able to keep their whole body in check. 3 When we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them…

Worshiping With Our Words (Part One)

8 …but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. (James 3:8) Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless. (James 1:26) 45 A good man brings good things out of the good…

Our Words to Ourselves Can Build or Destroy Our Faith

So then faith come by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. (Romans 10:17)   The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness,and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. (1 Corinthians 2:14)   Trust in the Lord with all…