Tonight begins the first study of CHOICES. It has taken me 1 1/2 years to get it to this point. I am so excited to go thorough it as a student and not the author. The beginning came from an act of obedience to God, to just sit and listen. As I began to hear…
I had a lady tell me she thought she understood why James was so passionate about not showing partiality. Showing favoritism was considered such a great offense to James and he spent a lot of time proving the harm of it. This sweet lady suggested that James perhaps struggled with living in the shadow of…
James calls us on the carpet and hammers the nails in hard. He tells us that our words are useless when our actions don’t back them up. The phrase, “people don’t care what you know, until they know that you care” is the perfect illustration here. James tells us that if someone is hungry and…
James talked for 13 verses on favoritism in Chapter 2. We spent a lot of time trying to wrap our brains around why James considered it such a serious offense. James told us if we show favoritism to others than we have broken the royal law and are just like those that murder and commit…