The Book of James | The Power of Your Words

Most of us have said something we immediately wished we could take back. And most of us can also point to a handful of words — spoken years or even decades ago — that we still carry with us today. Words have a strange persistence. They don't just land and disappear. They echo.

Drawing from one of history's most quoted passages on the subject — a short letter written nearly two thousand years ago — Jason Laird builds a case that our words are doing something whether we intend them to or not. They carry real weight. They steer things, the way a small rudder steers a massive ship. And perhaps most uncomfortably, they have a way of revealing what's actually going on inside us — not just what we want people to see.

If you've ever been shaped by someone's words — for better or worse — or if you're someone who speaks into the lives of others (and that's all of us), this episode is for you.