Questions: Read: James 1:1-4; 1Peter 1:6-7; Romans 5:3; Hebrews 10:36; and 2Peter 1:6) 1. In your life, what are some
trials that you and your church are experiencing? 2. What lessons have you learned in that suffering? 3. In what ways can you now identify more with Jesus? 4. In what ways is a tested faith less perishable than gold in a crucible? 5. In what ways can a faith become stronger? 6. In what ways can you rejoice in suffering? 7. In what ways to you find it hard to rejoice...
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Faith through
trials James 1: 1-4 Jesus’ brother wrote the book of James. He is speaking to his fellow Jews, male and female, his spiritual siblings, specifically to the twelve tribes of Israel that had been dispersed among the Greeks. What he is telling them flies in the face of what they thought the Messiah was to do when He came. They were expecting a conqueror that would restore Israel and crush its enemies. Instead, Jesus brought in a different kind of Kingdom. Not one of this...
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