Prepare for James

NEW SERMON SERIES STARTS THIS SUNDAY

After 4 months considering the collapse of nations and cultural pressures to compromise our convictions in the Book of Isaiah, we’re switching gears. Moving from the grand sweeping trajectory of the big story God is writing in history, awaiting the coming Servant of the Lord, the establishment of his Kingdom in the earth, and the one day completion of his reign in a new heavens and new earth, to a New Testament Book which seems to be situated right in our living rooms. A letter to one of the earliest expressions of the New Testament Church, which reiterates the challenge to live in God’s world, God’s way and presses it down into the nooks and crannies of the day-to-day, utterly practical, seemingly mundane realities of life. Applying God’s wisdom to the questions and situations which are right in front of us and always close to home:

How should I respond in times of trial or temptation? Read James.
What should I do if I can’t control my tongue? Read James.
What are marks of true saving faith? Read James.
How do I deal with relational conflict? Read James.
How should I go about making decisions in life? Read James.
How do I grow in my faith and make my life “work” better in God’s world? Read James.

Expect that God will meet us through this imminently practical and indispensable letter that we could rightly call “The New Testament Book of Proverbs.” Changing us into the likeness of the One who is the embodiment and personification of wisdom himself, Jesus Christ, “the Lord of Glory” (James 2:1).