How many families who sat down to supper together while traveling across the North Atlantic on the RMS Titanic on the evening of April 14, 1912 knew that they were eating their last meal together and that within hours their husbands and fathers would drown or die of hypothermia?  Did they know they would meet the dawn of the new day as newly made widows and orphans?  Of course not…and yet it still happened with no warning.… Read More James: Do The Right Thing, Today

It is impossible for anyone to overcome sin in their lives if they do not give serious thought as to why they commit that sin in the first place.  Thus, God gives us the reason we fight amongst ourselves.  The “source of quarrels and conflicts among you” is “your pleasures that wage war in your members” (4:1).  We want things that please US, which give US pleasure, which make US happy.  SELF is our highest priority.  When we care most about SELF, what happens?… Read More James: The Source of Quarrels and Conflicts

If our fruit is good, our trees (we ourselves) are good because “the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart.”  Therefore we will be judged by what we say (Matt. 12:33-37) because what we say and how we say it proves the worth of our religion (James 1:26).    … Read More James: The Tongue’s Stricter Judgment