HEALING AND FORGIVENESS THROUGH CHURCH ELDERS

James 5:14-15 – Is anyone among you sick? Then he must call for the elders of the church and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; and the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up,...

DON’T BE A PROCRASTINATOR

Proverbs 15:19 – The way of the lazy is as a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a highway. My father taught my brothers and me, “Don’t put off till tomorrow, what you can do today because tomorrow never comes, it is always today.” Delay in one’s...

DO NOT SPEAK AGAINST ONE ANOTHER

James 4:11 – Do not speak against one another, brethren. The Gospel has as a major focus on relationship. Relationship is rooted in care for another. Mature relationship is the willingness to put another person’s welfare above your own. The greatest demonstration of...

THINGS TO AVOID

James 4:1 – What is the source of quarrels and conflict among you? James proceeds to answer his own question by identifying numerous sources of conflict. He begins with “pleasures that wage war in your members” (James 4:1b). Pleasures speak of lust. Lust can be...

WISDOM FROM ABOVE

James 3:13 – Who among you is wise and understanding? Let him show by his good behavior his deeds in the gentleness of wisdom. As you begin to read the third chapter of James’ letter to the church, you read of comparing the gentleness of God’s wisdom to bitter...