December 2024

READ: James 3:13-18But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. – James 3:14 In the previous passage, James addressed the inner division of human nature. How can you praise God and at the same time curse the people He created? How can a born-again […]

READ: James 3:1-12And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell. – James 3:6 James, in his letter, extensively addresses a life that is

READ: James 2:20-26But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead? – James 2:20 It is impossible to have faith without acts of faith. This has nothing to do with merit. It is as Jesus says in Matt. 7:17-20: “Every good tree bears good fruit… A good tree cannot

READ: James 2:14-19What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? – James 2:14 James continues to emphasize the great importance of a faith that works through love, a life of faith that shows you are born again. Paul also spoke in the letter to the Ephesians

READ: James 2:8-13For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment. – James 2:13 James now involves God’s Word, “the Scripture,” in his words about the misconduct of the rich. It concerns God’s law, which under King Christ has become “the royal law.” This means it is

READ: James 2:5-7: Listen, my beloved brethren: Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him? But you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts? Do they

READ: James 1:26–2:4: … Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world. … do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with partiality … A sincere life of faith is

READ: James 1:22-25But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does. – James 1:25 Can there be a contradiction between doctrine and life in the church? That impression arises

READ: Col. 3:5-17So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God. Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

READ: Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind