Click HERE for sermon audio Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. 2 For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. 3 If we put bits into […]
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The Crown of Life
Click HERE for sermon audio Introduction In this verse James sets before us the whole aim and goal of this first section of the letter, and indeed what is the aim and goal of our whole Christian lives. This verse is very similar to verse 2, that we are to count it all joy when […]
Trials of Various Kinds (How to be a King)
Click HERE for sermon audio Count it all joy, my brothers,[b] when you meet trials of various kinds, 3 for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. 4 And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. (James 1:2-4) Introduction As is the character of much of the book of James, we […]
Theft, False Witness, and Coveting
Click HERE for sermon audio “You shall not steal. 16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. 17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.” (Exodus 20:15-17) Introduction […]
Why the Church is in the World: God’s Historical Agenda
But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. 14 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 15 I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but […]