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Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. James 2:18b Recommended Reading James 2:14-18 Ask the average man or woman on the street what the prerequisite for a person to go to heaven is, and the response you are likely to receive is that he or she must "be a good…

An unknown benefactor offered to pay for hotel rooms for a group of homeless people in Chicago when temperatures dipped to 22 degrees below zero. Someone had purchased 100 propane tanks to help the homeless stay warm, but the fire department confiscated the tanks after one of them exploded. The Salvation…

A 2017 study, conducted by Gallup, reported disengaged workers — those employees who are not really at work though they may be physically present — make up nearly 51% of the workforce, costing organizations between $450 and $550 billion annually in lost productivity. Effectively, this 51% of the workforce…

Eight-year-old Cayden Taipalus was upset when he saw a friend denied a hot lunch at school because his account was overdue. When he got home that day, he told his mother how upset he was and that he had decided to do something to help his friend and others who were forced to go without a hot lunch. Cayden…

In The New Republic Leon Wieseltier takes aim at Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s comments regarding the need to face the future on our knees. “This country was not built by people on their knees. It was built by people on their feet, with their hands as they were guided by their minds,” says Wieseltier. --The…

The action of repentance is always inward. The consequences of repentance are always outward.

There's a story about a farmer who was visited by a couple of young, energetic evangelists. They knocked on his door and asked if he 'was saved.' The farmer left the two at the door and went into his farmhouse for a pencil and a pad of paper. Coming back to the two evangelists, he gave them a list of…

SACRIFICE Hilda Mason served as an active Washington D.C. city council member into her 80's. She didn't serve her city alone. Her husband, Charlie Mason, assisted her in her work for more than twenty years. How did he find the time? He went the second mile and gave up his law practice to be her assistant.…

HUNGER When Erwin McManus was working among the urban poor in the Dallas Metroplex, a homeless man approached him to ask him for something to eat. His wife Kim handed the man Erwin's lunch, a brown paper bag filled with chips and a sandwich. Instead of saying "thank you" for the food, the man pointed…

GIVING Officials at the Louisiana Baptist Convention are used to receiving donations, but a recent gift was unexpected and extraordinary. A group of twenty men from the Island of Sumatra sent a gift of $854 to help those hit hard by Hurricane Katrina. The men experienced the tragedy of natural disaster…

COMMUNITY “In April of 1999, Jeremy went to the beach with some friends from church, just hanging out. As usually happens with most people, he mentioned something that was worrying him—he couldn't make his rent that month. After communion the next evening, the church had an open microphone for anyone…

What follows is a brief overview of traditional matters of introduction to James–Jude. I have also provided brief bibliographies listing mostly commentaries. I assume the presence of articles in the IVP dictionaries and in NT introductions. One additional word of preface. James through 2 Peter and Jude…

James 1:2-4 2 My family once lived next door to a woman in her eighties who was admittedly crusty and made a life out of being just a touch out-of-sorts about most things. It was her "gig," and we loved her for it. She claimed that her daily gin and cigarettes kept her fresh! Her sister, on the other…

Lechem - Bread by Josa Bivin1 "For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world." John 6:33 When Richard and Lucinda (our volunteer workers) first came to Israel, they noticed plastic sacks containing pieces of bread hanging from the sides of the trash containers…

A Christian Guide to Passover (PESCH) Below is a compilation of several contemporary Seder services that are used today. Because of the passage of time and that Passover was intended to be a family tradition, it is not possible to reconstruct with certainty the type of Passover meal or celebration that…

to Illustrate... EQUIPPING MODERN LIFE GRIEF R ecently our daughter received a document of almost infinite worth to a typical fifteen-year-old: a learner's permit for driving. Shortly there­after, I accompanied her as she drove for the first time. In the passenger seat, hav­ing no steering wheel and…

Social Is Ihe Gospel? by Elmer L. Towns | F | undamentalists are taking stands along the spectrum of a heated debate as to which has priority—preaching the gospel or in­volvement in social service programs. Some maintain that preaching is the sole aim of the church, and any type of social action is outside…