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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...

THE TONGUE IS A FIRE

James 3:6 – The tongue is a fire, the very world of iniquity; the tongue is set among our members as that which defiles the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life, and is set on fire by hell. In this verse, James goes straight to the heart of human...

FAITH AND WORKS

James 2:14 – What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him? Some have thought James preached a different Gospel than that of Paul. Paul laid the foundation of believing faith throughout his letters. “For by...

DEMONSTRATING LOVE, ACCEPTANCE, AND FORGIVENESS

1Timothy 1:15-16 – It is a trustworthy statement, deserving full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom I am foremost of all. Yet for this reason I found mercy, so that in me as the foremost, Jesus Christ might demonstrate His...