Title: The Weight of Our Words (1)
Series: Sticks and Stones
Author: Craig Smith
Text: James 3:1
Hey, however you are joining us, whether you're in person on one of our campuses or online I'm really glad to have you with us today 'cause we're starting a new series and I'm really excited about what I believe God's gonna do with this series. We're calling it Sticks and Stones, which for a lot of you probably that's a familiar phrase because you might have grown up like I did when I was growing up.
Every time somebody said something that hurt my feelings or they made me mad or whatever, the authorities in my life would say, Hey, Craig, just remember. And if you know this, go ahead and say it with me. They would say, sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. Sounds like you guys know it.
How many of you heard that at one point growing up? Yeah. So here's the thing about that saying it's stupid. Okay? It's it's stupid. It's just not true, right? The reality is that words hurt and sometimes the wounds they cause. Heal a lot slower, if at all, than the wounds caused by physical things.
Here's the thing. I was a boy, so I played a lot with sticks and we poked each other with sticks, and I I got injuries from that. And we played a lot with rocks. I don't know why, but we thought throwing rocks at each other was just a fun thing to do. And I had bruises, but it's not like I go to an annual physical and my doctor's pointing and where did this come from?
Oh, when I was five years old, there was a stick. They don't see any signs of it, right? The reality is. Those wounds healed and they're forgotten sometimes. Sometimes, honestly, we don't even remember. We got 'em. I broke my little finger wood turning a couple years ago, and when I got all the x-rays of it.
The doctor comes in and he's got my X-rays and he goes, oh, I see this isn't the first finger you've broken. You say, how did you break that finger over there? I'm like, I hav ...
Series: Sticks and Stones
Author: Craig Smith
Text: James 3:1
Hey, however you are joining us, whether you're in person on one of our campuses or online I'm really glad to have you with us today 'cause we're starting a new series and I'm really excited about what I believe God's gonna do with this series. We're calling it Sticks and Stones, which for a lot of you probably that's a familiar phrase because you might have grown up like I did when I was growing up.
Every time somebody said something that hurt my feelings or they made me mad or whatever, the authorities in my life would say, Hey, Craig, just remember. And if you know this, go ahead and say it with me. They would say, sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. Sounds like you guys know it.
How many of you heard that at one point growing up? Yeah. So here's the thing about that saying it's stupid. Okay? It's it's stupid. It's just not true, right? The reality is that words hurt and sometimes the wounds they cause. Heal a lot slower, if at all, than the wounds caused by physical things.
Here's the thing. I was a boy, so I played a lot with sticks and we poked each other with sticks, and I I got injuries from that. And we played a lot with rocks. I don't know why, but we thought throwing rocks at each other was just a fun thing to do. And I had bruises, but it's not like I go to an annual physical and my doctor's pointing and where did this come from?
Oh, when I was five years old, there was a stick. They don't see any signs of it, right? The reality is. Those wounds healed and they're forgotten sometimes. Sometimes, honestly, we don't even remember. We got 'em. I broke my little finger wood turning a couple years ago, and when I got all the x-rays of it.
The doctor comes in and he's got my X-rays and he goes, oh, I see this isn't the first finger you've broken. You say, how did you break that finger over there? I'm like, I hav ...
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