Lead With Your Ears - James 1

1. Prayer
Blessed are you,
God who is Lord and Love,
source of beauty and depth of passion.
Strengthen and inspire us
to do the word we hear
and live the faith we confess.
Amen.

2. The Church Calendar
August 29

3. James 1
LEAD with your EARS

4. So, my very dear friends, don’t get
thrown off course. Every desirable
and beneficial gift comes out of heaven.
The gifts are rivers of light cascading down
from the Father of Light. There is nothing
deceitful in God, nothing two-faced,
nothing fickle. He brought us to life
using the true Word, showing us off
as the crown of all his creatures.
JAMES 1:16-18 (MSG)

5. Post this at all the intersections, dear
friends: Lead with your ears, follow up with
your tongue, and let anger straggle along
in the rear. God’s righteousness doesn’t
grow from human anger. So throw
all spoiled virtue and cancerous evil
in the garbage. In simple humility,
let our gardener, God, landscape you
with the Word, making a salvation-garden
of your life.
JAMES 1:19-21 (MSG)

6. Don’t fool yourself into thinking
that you are a listener when you
are anything but, letting the Word
go in one ear and out the other.
Act on what you hear! Those who
hear and don’t act are like those
who glance in the mirror, walk away,
and two minutes later have no idea
who they are, what they look like.
JAMES 1:22-24 (MSG)

7. But whoever catches a glimpse
of the revealed counsel of God—
the free life!—even out of the corner
of his eye, and sticks with it, is no
distracted scatterbrain but a man
or woman of action. That person will
find delight and affirmation in the action.
JAMES 1:25 (MSG)

8. Anyone who sets himself up as “religious”
by talking a good game is self-deceived.
This kind of religion is hot air and only
hot air. Real religion, the kind that passes
muster before God the Father, is this:
Reach out to the homeless and loveless
in their plight, and guard against
corruption from the godless world.
JAMES 1:26-27 (MSG)

9. James 1
LEAD with your EARS

10. 1. LISTEN IN PERSON/ONLINE
FOUR POINTS of ACTION

11. FOUR POINTS of ACTION
1. LISTEN IN PERSON/ONLINE

12. 1. LISTEN IN PERSON/ONLINE
2. SPEAK/ASK
FOUR POINTS of ACTION

13. 1. LISTEN IN PERSON/ONLINE
2. SPEAK/ASK
3. RESIST UNPRODUCTIVE ANGER
FOUR POINTS of ACTION

14. 1. LISTEN IN PERSON/ONLINE
2. SPEAK/ASK
3. RESIST UNPRODUCTIVE ANGER
4. ACT OUTWARDLY/INWARDLY
FOUR POINTS of ACTION

15. James 1
LEAD with your EARS

16. AN EXAMPLE FROM MY LIFE…
1. LISTEN
2. SPEAK/ASK
3. RESIST ANGER
4. ACT

17. Father of lights,
from whose Word
we have been born:
make us quick to listen and slow to speak,
that the word implanted in us
may take root to nourish all our living,
and that we may be blessed in our doing
and fruitful in action.
Amen.
Benediction