James 4:1-10
“The LORD your God in your midst is a jealous God” – Deuteronomy 6:15 I wonder how those words make us feel. Is jealousy an attribute we easily associate with God, when human jealousy is so often sinful and destructive?…
“The LORD your God in your midst is a jealous God” – Deuteronomy 6:15 I wonder how those words make us feel. Is jealousy an attribute we easily associate with God, when human jealousy is so often sinful and destructive?…
When we think someone is wise, we listen to them. James, as he starts to address the heart problem of 3:1-12, presents two different ‘wisdoms’ we might listen to. The first is the ‘wisdom’ of the world, the flesh and…
“If only I could press ‘rewind’ and take back what I just said.” ... I suspect we’ve all had that feeling at some point. On Sunday we heard a grim diagnosis from James about our speech: “no human being can…
“What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?” (V14) James’ answer in this section is ‘No’. That faith can’t save a person, because that faith is…