James’ epistle teaches us that true Christianity is a product of the new birth and results in a genuinely changed life – one that desires to glorify God. This new life manifests itself in our speech. This is natural when we recognize our speech reveals what is in our heart. When God gives us aContinue reading “Wisdom from Above”
Category Archives: James’ Epistle
The Judge is at the Door
As James draws his epistle to a close, he offers encouragement to those who are being oppressed. “Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain” (James 5:7). InContinue reading “The Judge is at the Door”
Life Without God
James has a very emphatic admonition for his audience in first century Christianity. He warned them to not live their lives without God. Listen to him speak. “Go to now, ye that say, today or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain. Continue reading “Life Without God”
Count It All Joy!
James, the Lord’s half-brother, wrote a letter to Jewish believers that were scattered beyond Jerusalem in an effort to encourage them and instruct them in their faith. The epistle that bears his name in our Bibles is that letter. He opened that letter with “My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into diversContinue reading “Count It All Joy!”
Begotten of God
James noted in his epistle that “God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man” (James 1:13). Conversely, he declares in that same passage “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights” (James 1:17). It is from this background that James (under theContinue reading “Begotten of God”
Ask God!
In his Epistle, James’ (the Lord’s half-brother) admonished his readers to “count it all joy” when they encounter trials and difficulties. He understood these trying times fall to all of us from a loving heavenly Father whose purpose is to use them to produce the image of His Son in each of us. Hence, weContinue reading “Ask God!”
An Unruly Evil
James, the Lord’s half-brother, speaks clearly in his epistle of the relationship between faith and works. It is true that we are saved through faith alone, but James goes on to point out that faith that saves is never alone. In fact, he concludes that “faith without works is dead” (James 1:26) and by implicationContinue reading “An Unruly Evil”
Adulterers and Adulteresses
James made a comparison of earthly wisdom to wisdom that is from above (James 3:17). It is understandable that James spoke of a wisdom that is “from above” when he described how Christians should live. After all, believers are in the world but are not to be of the world. Yet his audience was characterizedContinue reading “Adulterers and Adulteresses”
Drawn Away
We all know and understand what it means to be tempted. It is after all a universal phenomenon. What is just as universal is that we have all yielded to temptation. Thankfully, to be tempted is not a sin; however, yielding to temptation is. In the New Testament James offers some inspired insight into thisContinue reading “Drawn Away”
Faith Without Works
Christians believe that we are saved by grace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. This simple truth differentiates Christianity from all other religions. All other religions ultimately require something or rather some work on the part of their practitioner. That is, those religions require you to do something to earn eternal life. Not soContinue reading “Faith Without Works”
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