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Sermons on James

Faith Turns Self-Reliance into Surrender

Scripture: James 4:13–5:6 Faith surrenders our plans “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 profit’– yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring.” (James 4:13-17) “the land of a rich man produced plentifully, and he thought…

Faith Turns Worldliness into Worship

Scripture: James 4:1-12 Faith exposes worldly passions “What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?” (v1) “the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of property that is coming to me.’ . . Not many days later the…

Stick Out Your Tongue

Scripture: James 3:1-12 I. You need to control your tongue because it is powerful. A. True faith in Jesus must produce good works (James 2:17). Some Christians use their tongues to do the good work of teaching the people in the church (vs. 1). But God will judge teachers strictly because teachers can either do great…

Faith Turns Favoritism into Mercy

Scripture: James 2:1-13 Faith refuses to play favorites “My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.” (v1) “For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. . . and…

Faith Turns Listening into Living

Scripture: James 1:19-27 Faith listens to the word “Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger” (v19) “He who has ears, let him hear. . .  When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what…

Faith Turns Temptation into Transformation

Scripture: James 1:13-18 Faith refuses to blame God “Let no one say when he is tempted, ‘I am being tempted by God.’ For God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.” (v13) (The serpent) “said to the woman, ‘Did God actually say, You shall not eat of any tree in the garden?’…

Faith Turns Trials into Triumphs

Scripture: James 1:1-12 Faith develops a joyful perspective “Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds” (v2) “Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our…