Lethal Weapon
James 3:1-12
Sermon
by Harold Warlick

A popular series of movies has been the Lethal Weapon series. You might remember that in the series Mel Gibson plays a semi-unbalanced police officer named Riggs. Riggs is a capable detective but occasionally he goes berserk and mentally flips out. He's called a lethal weapon because you never know when he's going to go off. 

Each of us has the potential to become a "lethal weapon." We possess within ourselves a weapon against which there is little insurance others can take out. This weapon enables us to engage in moral hit-and-run tactics. With this weapon we can engage in the sabotage of helpless victims. Anyone we touch with this weapon is in great danger. It can kill spiritually, socially, and even physically. This weapon acts with deadly destructiveness. No age group is untouched, no…

CSS Publishing Company, Sermons for Sunday after Pentecost, by Harold Warlick