by Andrea Howey | Jan 25, 2018 | James, Love God Greatly Posts |
What we do says a lot about what we say we believe. It’s like the premise that “actions speak louder than words.” It’s pretty easy to say we have faith in our hearts, but if that faith isn’t prompted to move, act, or produce fruit, is that genuine faith? What we...
by WhitneyD | Jan 23, 2018 | James, Love God Greatly Posts |
My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. – James 2:1 We stand tall and are quick to deny it. It could never be us. Favoritism. Prejudice. Discrimination. “Surely not me,” we whisper under our breaths as we...
by Lyli Dunbar | Jan 21, 2018 | James, Love God Greatly Posts |
Every Tuesday evening for 30 weeks, I spent 3 hours in a classroom discussing family life skills with a group of women and a trained marriage and family counselor. On one memorable evening, our teacher stood at the front and re-defined anger for me: “Anger is a false...
by Jen Thorn | Jan 18, 2018 | James, Love God Greatly Posts |
As the Christmas season has come to an end I find today’s passage particularly timely. The Christmas decorations have been taken down and the gifts put away. The New Year has made its entrance and with it, our New Year’s resolutions. Many of our New Year’s plans...
by WhitneyD | Jan 16, 2018 | James |
“Let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation, and the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away. For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. So also will the rich man...
by Angela Perritt | Jan 16, 2018 | James |
(Our James study has been translated into 17 languages!) We want to encounter God in a new and fresh way every time we visit Scripture. And we want to make friends along the way- real friends who will help us celebrate the smallest win and tell us the toughest truth....