Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— 14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. 15 Instead you ought to […]
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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 […]
Jesus Interrupts a Funeral
Click HERE for sermon audio Soon afterward[c] he went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a great crowd went with him. 12 As he drew near to the gate of the town, behold, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow, and a considerable […]
The Life and Doctrine of Martin Luther, Pt. 2
Click HERE for sermon audio Diet of Worms Well last time we left off with the 95 theses which Luther posted on Oct. 31st 1517. He continued to write and debate in the intervening time leading up to the year 1521. On January 3rd, 1521 Pope Leo X issued a papal bull – which is […]