Royal Law..."love your neighbour as yourself" ... doing right...Favouritism - Sin - convicted as lawbreakers... keeps this part of the law but screws up in another area your guilty of IT ALL!...
In this passage, James has opened this teaching about living out our faith to a subject much broader than only favouritism. He is addressing and issue of our heart that is particularly highlighted i ...
Dodie Gadient, a schoolteacher for thirteen years, decided to travel across America and see the sights she had taught about. Traveling alone in a truck with camper in tow, she launched out. One afternoon rounding a curve on I-5 near Sacramento in rush-hour traffic, a water pump blew on her truck. She was tired, exasperated, scared, and alone. In spite of the traffic jam she caused, no one see ...
The great challenge of a Christian's life is living the Christian life. Recognizing that I have entered into the most amazing, fulfilling, satisfying relationship I can imagine with my maker and my God and then letting the new life that Jesus has given me come out in my daily life.
James 1:19-27
this passage from James is the thesis of his entire letter
What is this saying:
James 1:19 ...
Temptation is COMMON!
Temptation, It is something we all deal with it. The temptation to buy that piece of clothing or that electronic toy. The temptation to make this generalized lie in a report. The temptation to cheat on this test or expense report; the temptation to fanticize about this other person in an inappropriate way; or the temptation to say this hurtful thing to this other p ...
Last week we considered how wisdom for living our lives comes from God, He is the one who knows how life is to work and when we ask Him to give us wisdom, He will, but we must trust Him in what he says, believing that His ways are best.
James 1:5-6
If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. 6 But when he ask ...
The bible gives us a picture of God's new reality-a reality that is here/real because of what Christ accomplished on the cross. And yet, this reality is held in a paradoxical tension of "already but not yet." This tension is pervasive throughout Scripture-the end of Matthew Jesus says "all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me" yet we see wickedness prosper over good; injustic ...
On Jan 1, 1990, President Vaclav Havel of Czechoslovakia addressed his nation. It had been a few weeks sinces his country peaceably ousted the Communist totalitarian government that had held power for forty years. Only two days before Havel had been elected President by a parliament still dominated by Communists. Havel said:
We live in a contaminated moral environment... We learned not ...
No one should have more joy in their lives than followers of Jesus. We have every reason to live in joy and express a joy that can change the world. If we have no joy in our life then we have missed the message of the Gospel.
Jesus came to bring joy into our lives, he does not want us to miss living with Joy
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Have you ever been in a meeting and you're the one that walks out with all (or great percent) of all the action items. Everyone else on the team talks about all the things that need to happen and yet you're the one that ends up with all the things to do?
I think we experience the same thing everytime we go to God in prayer...
We tell God all that is going on in our world, we express t ...