As we have worked our way through the Lord’s Prayer, a prayer that more appropriately would be titled as The Disciple’s Prayer, we have seen questions regarding forgiveness.  Forgiveness is confusing in the wake of current events show horrible acts from terrorist groups.  How can we forgive those who do such horrible things? To look at […]

As we lead up to , the scene is placed as Mary, a disciple, hanging on every word of Jesus, but Martha busy making a meal.  And while making a meal is not wrong, but she is so caught up in her work that she forgets who is in the room. It can be so […]

As we look at prayer, we continue to look at what prayer means.  It isn’t just a checklist of things we say.  But it is to refresh and enter communication with God.  But with daily lives we are continually loosing the daily time devoted to God, even when we live in a day where we […]

As we have looked through the book of James, we have see some great revelations on how a real faith plays out in the world.  In some instances, it appears that James is being pretty harsh, but we appreciate his straight-shooting attitude.  He didn’t beat around the bush and coddle them, but pointed out the […]

As we continue with James, we begin looking at humility, but at the same time we discover the problem with pride.  Last week we saw James explaining that we cannot take the sin of other Christians and use that as the point of contention.  But we will see some Christians and churches who will live […]

Continuing our walk through the book of James… In this passage we see James warning us of judging against other believers.  That we are to not slander or focus on those struggles because if we begin to define people by their struggles, we fall into the prideful position of judging them.  When we take away […]

So the question comes up, “If I am in the place of compromise, how can I turn back to God?”  Maybe, as we saw in previous verses in James, we are in full rebellion mode. But James’ simple statement is to “submit yourself” to God.  We are to surrender and draw near.  Attached to this […]

As we continue our study of James, we find that a larger take-away from what we have see is that we are to live out or lives consistent with the faith that we have in our lives. Here James follows up with two examples to the well known “faith without works is dead” statement in […]

The more we read of letter of James, the more it begins to sound like James was speaking to a people withing the context of the issues that they were experiencing.  As we continue with , we are seeing a very well known passage of “faith without works is dead.”  We see James calling Christians […]

As we continue to work through James, we will see many of the ideas Jesus spoke of in the sermon on the mount. But there is a theme of trials that Christians will go through in life. And if you have not gone through trials yet, just speak to another Christian and you will learn […]