So speak and so act as those who are to be judged by the law of liberty. For judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.                                                                                                                           James 2:12-13  This one statement should change everything in the way the church functions in a sinful culture. “Mercy…

 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.                                                                                                                             James 2:10  To believe that we are all equally in need of salvation because we have all equally transgressed the Law is biblical truth. Today’s passage could not be any…

My brethren, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism.                                                                                                                         James 2:1  It is not uncommon to run into people who “hold their faith…with an attitude of personal favoritism.” But exactly what does this mean? An attitude of favoritism…

If anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man’s religion is worthless.                                                                                                                       James 1:26  Many of the themes in which James discusses connect to one another in that they are the standards by which believers in…

But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was….

This you know, my beloved brethren. But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger; for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    James 1:19-20  If there is one thing that I am…

Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone. But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust.                                                                                                                    James 1:13-14  It’s a…

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind. For that man ought not to…

Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the eternal covenant, even Jesus our Lord, equip you in every good thing to do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.                                                                                                …

Through Him then, let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that give thanks to His name. And do not neglect doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.                                                                                                              Hebrews 13:15-16  The Christian life is to be a joyous one….