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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...