Tag Archives: the tongue

Entrusting Myself to Him Who Judges Justly

Posted on October 18, 2022 by Pete

I am wired to be a justifier. Not necessarily a justifier of all things to all people, just a justifier of myself. I don’t think I have to be right all the time–I think I know enough about people in … Continue reading →

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Taming the Untamable

Posted on October 4, 2022 by Pete

Oh, if ever there were an area of my life in which I needed to know the functional reality of “it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me” (Galatians 2:20), it’s the area of what comes … Continue reading →

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Tame the Untamable

Posted on September 28, 2021 by Pete

If it’s true, then we really do need to take heed. If it’s as easy to be derailed by it as James says it is, and if it’s really so universally at play as James claims it is, then to … Continue reading →

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Let My Words Be Few (A 2008 Rerun)

Posted on September 24, 2020 by Pete

Feeling particularly convicted this morning by James 3:1-12. Too close for comfort. Too recent an experience to dodge the bullet. And though “no human being can tame the tongue”, it doesn’t alter the fact that it is sin to “set … Continue reading →

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