Two men walk into the same room — one in a gold ring, one in rags — and James watches which seat each is offered. Pastor Joshua Pigg takes partiality…
James 1:26-27. Pure religion is looking after widows and orphans and keeping oneself unstained — religion as practice rather than as a bridle for the tongue only.
James 1:22-25 and the man who looks in the mirror and forgets what he saw. Be doers of the word, not hearers who deceive themselves.
James 1:19-21: quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger — and what a righteous anger is and is not.
James 1:12-15 and the blessed life, beginning with the question of when you last actually felt blessed, and where that feeling came from.
James 1:5-8 — if any of you lacks wisdom, ask. The double-minded man, and what it means to ask without wavering.