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Equipped for faith James 1:5-11 Two crucial elements are important if faith is going to be able to stand the trials that will most certainly beset our lives. They have to do with where wisdom comes from and whom we can trust. Those elements are a right attitude toward God and a right attitude about ourselves. In verses 5-11 of the first chapter of James, wisdom is the first thing we need if we are to weather what the world throws at us. Additionally, we are not equipped with the ab... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
Scripture reference: Ephesians 6:2 The Lord has blessed me with the opportunity to share my faith with teenage boys from time to time. I always enjoy the excitement and imagination of those in early puberty. Their mind and emotions, being tossed in a wild sea of sudden growth and change, always present challenging ideas and questions. One troubling questions that arises as a result of the evil age we live in is this. Why should I honor and respect my father or my mother when he/she is an... Read More
Scripture reference: 2 Kings 4:8-37 In my many years as a woman of Shunem I have served my people with the talents and wisdom such as God has given to me. For that reason I have some standing and reputation for greatness among them, but it is of God and not of me. Even still, I never conceived. Therefore, my husband and I were without child, and were great in years. Now there came a day when a man would regularly pass by my home, and I perceived that he was a great man of God. I in... Read More
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