Slow Enough to Hear: For the Week You Did Not Choose

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A single Sunday from James 1:19-27 for a church living through a week it did not choose and already drafting the reply. James tells beloved brothers to be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger, because the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. The implanted word, received with humility, is able to save souls. Hearers who walk away from the mirror delude themselves. Pure religion visits the fatherless and widows in their affliction and keeps a people unstained by the world. Ephesians 4:26-27 refuses both a baptized rant and a pretended calm. Isaiah 1:17 names the same Father's care for the oppressed. Manuscript, outline, and midweek discussion.