James 4:15-17 – Boasting and Arrogance
This last section of James 4 warns against such self-centered planning. Worldly living does not always show itself in hatred for God. Sometimes it appears… Read More »James 4:15-17 – Boasting and Arrogance
This last section of James 4 warns against such self-centered planning. Worldly living does not always show itself in hatred for God. Sometimes it appears… Read More »James 4:15-17 – Boasting and Arrogance
Warnings in verses 11–12 grow out of the rebuke of pride and the call for humility in verses 7–10. Verse 11 prohibits slander and insulting… Read More »James 4:11-14 – Submitting to the Will of God
Apparently, the Jewish believers to whom James wrote tended not only toward conflict and jealousy but also toward condemnation and judgment. Justice, not judgment, is… Read More »James 4:6-10 – GOD GIVES MORE GRACE
Fights, quarrels, lust, hate, envy, pride, and sin are words that stain this portion of James’ letter like inkblots. In stark contrast with the closing… Read More »James 4:1-5 Worldliness
The next section on wisdom from above and below (3:13-4:10) contains four subsections. The first section (3:13–15) establishes the existence of the two wisdoms: the… Read More »James 3:13-18 – WISDOM FROM ABOVE
Over the next few posts, I am going to break out an article I wrote on what exactly a Levirate Marriage looked like in the… Read More »LEVIRATE MARRIAGE IN OLD TESTAMENT WORLD, part 1
Every Christian is tempted and sin each and every day, and we all must admit that “we all stumble in many ways” (v. 2). It… Read More »James 3:6-12 – The Tongue is Fire
The basic problem of self-deception and double-mindedness raised in chapter 1 is at the root of the problem with inactive faith confronted in chapter 2.… Read More »James 3:1-5 – The Tongue
James has introduced us to two kinds of faith that can never save the sinner: dead faith (the intellect alone), and demonic faith (the intellect… Read More »James 2:21-26 Devotional – Dead Faith and True Faith
The second part of James 2, verses 14-26, really should be handled all together as one, but that would create a lengthy post. As such,… Read More »JAMES 2:14-20 EXPRESSION AND EVIDENCE OF TRUE FAITH