Sep 18, 2022
James: A Biblical Perspective on Wealth

coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments have

become moth-eaten. Your gold and your silver have corroded, and their

corrosion will serve as a testimony against you and will consume your flesh

like fire. It is in the last days that you have stored up your

treasure! Behold, the pay of the laborers who mowed your

fields, and which has been withheld by you, cries out against you; and the

outcry of those who did the harvesting has reached the ears of the Lord of

armies. You have lived for pleasure on the earth and lived luxuriously; you

have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. You have condemned

and put to death the righteous person; he offers you no resistance.

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  • Sep 18, 2022James: A Biblical Perspective on Wealth
    Sep 18, 2022
    James: A Biblical Perspective on Wealth

    coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments have

    become moth-eaten. Your gold and your silver have corroded, and their

    corrosion will serve as a testimony against you and will consume your flesh

    like fire. It is in the last days that you have stored up your

    treasure! Behold, the pay of the laborers who mowed your

    fields, and which has been withheld by you, cries out against you; and the

    outcry of those who did the harvesting has reached the ears of the Lord of

    armies. You have lived for pleasure on the earth and lived luxuriously; you

    have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. You have condemned

    and put to death the righteous person; he offers you no resistance.

  • Sep 4, 2022James: How to Plan for the Future
    Sep 4, 2022
    James: How to Plan for the Future
    13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.” 14 Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. For you are just a vapor that appears for a little while, and then vanishes away. 15 Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that.” 16 But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil. 17 So for one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, for him it is sin.
  • Aug 28, 2022James: A Warning Against Slandering Others
    Aug 28, 2022
    James: A Warning Against Slandering Others
     

    11 Do not speak against one another, brothers and sisters. The one who speaks against a brother or sister, or judges his brother or sister, speaks against the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge of it. 12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you, judging your neighbor?

  • Aug 21, 2022James: Drawing Near to God
    Aug 21, 2022
    James: Drawing Near to God
     

    But He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, “God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” Submit therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come close to God and He will come close to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Be miserable, and mourn, and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into gloom. 10 Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you.

  • Aug 14, 2022James: How to Handle Conflict
    Aug 14, 2022
    James: How to Handle Conflict

     

    4 What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is the source not your pleasures that wage war in your body’s parts? You lust and do not have, so you commit murder. And you are envious and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask with the wrong motives, so that you may spend what you request on your pleasures. You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do you think that the Scripture says to no purpose, “He jealously desires the Spirit whom He has made to dwell in us”? But He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, “God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

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  • Aug 7, 2022James: Two Kinds of Wisdom
    Aug 7, 2022
    James: Two Kinds of Wisdom

     

  • Jul 31, 2022James: The Power of the Tonque
    Jul 31, 2022
    James: The Power of the Tonque

    Do not become teachers in large numbers, my brothers, since you know that we who are teachers will incur a stricter judgment. For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to rein in the whole body as well. Now if we put the bits into the horses’ mouths so that they will obey us, we direct their whole body as well. Look at the ships too: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are nevertheless directed by a very small rudder wherever the inclination of the pilot determines. So also the tongue is a small part of the body, and yet it boasts of great things.

    See how great a forest is set aflame by such a small fire! And the tongue is a fire, the very world of unrighteousness; the tongue is set among our body’s parts as that which defiles the whole body and sets on fire the course of our life, and is set on fire by hell. For every species of beasts and birds, of reptiles and creatures of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by the human race. But no one among mankind can tame the tongue; it is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people, who have been made in the likeness of God; 10 from the same mouth come both blessing and cursing. My brothers and sisters, these things should not be this way. 11 Does a spring send out from the same opening both fresh and bitter water? 12 Can a fig tree, my brothers and sisters, bear olives, or a vine bear figs? Nor can salt water produce fresh.

     

  • Jul 24, 2022James: Faith That Works
    Jul 24, 2022
    James: Faith That Works

    14 What use is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone says he has faith, but he has no works? Can that faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and be filled,” yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that? 17 In the same way, faith also, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself.

    18 But someone may well say, “You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.” 19 You believe that God is one. You do well; the demons also believe, and shudder. 20 But are you willing to acknowledge, you foolish person, that faith without works is useless? 21 Was our father Abraham not justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? 22 You see that faith was working with his works, and as a result of the works, faith was perfected; 23 and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called a friend of God. 24 You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. 25 In the same way, was Rahab the prostitute not justified by works also when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? 26 For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.

  • Jul 10, 2022James: A Warning Against Personal Favortism
    Jul 10, 2022
    James: A Warning Against Personal Favortism

    If, however, you are fulfilling the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the Law as violators. 10 For whoever keeps the whole Law, yet stumbles in one point, has become guilty of all. 11 For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but do murder, you have become a violator of the Law. 12 So speak, and so act, as those who are to be judged by the law of freedom. 13 For judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.

  • Jul 3, 2022James: Maturing in the Christain Life
    Jul 3, 2022
    James: Maturing in the Christain Life

    19 You know this, my beloved brothers and sisters. Now everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; 20 for a man’s anger does not bring about the righteousness of God. 21 Therefore, ridding yourselves of all filthiness and all that remains of wickedness, in humility receive the word implanted, which is able to save your souls. 22 But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not just hearers who deceive themselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; 24 for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was. 25 But one who has looked intently at the perfect law, the law of freedom, and has continued in it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an active doer, this person will be blessed in what he does.

    26 If anyone thinks himself to be religious, yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this person’s religion is worthless. 27 Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.