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Scripture: James 5:7-12 Faith watches with patience “Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. . . . establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.” (v7-8) “. . . stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the…
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…
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…
Scripture: James 3:13-18 Faith is wise in conduct “Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom” (v13) “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.” (Matthew 7:24)…
Scripture: James 2:14-26 Faith is powerless when it professes alone “faith by itself, if it does not have works is dead” (v17) “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going…
We have a heart that betrays “Judas came, one of the twelve, and with him a great crowd with swords and clubs from the chief priests and the elders of the people. Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, ‘The one I will kiss is the man; seize him.’” (Matthew 26:47-48) “For within,…
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…
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…
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?’…
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…
