Everyone wants the breakthrough moment; almost nobody wants the ordinary weeks that prepare for it. Pastor Adam opens a series on chronos and kairos with fruit picked early and gassed…
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 1:5-8 — if any of you lacks wisdom, ask. The double-minded man, and what it means to ask without wavering.
Acts 1:6-11 on day forty, the ascension, and the two men in white asking why everyone is still standing there looking up.