It’s up to you to rescue a stray. I don’t mean dogs or cats, either. The stakes are much higher. What do you do when someone who claims to be a believer seemingly walks away from the faith?
Join us this Sunday for the final message from our series in James: Intentional Faith: A “How To” Guide.
Maybe it’s hard to stay faithful in prayer sometimes because, quite frankly, we don’t see prayer answered. We’ve all prayed fervently for something that didn’t exactly end up with the results we were praying for. And then we wrestle with why don’t we see prayer answered…?
Is it lack of faith on my part? Can I not recognize what answered prayer looks like? Do I need to change how I pray - or what I’m praying for?
Maybe if we saw more prayer answered, we’d pray more.
Join us this Sunday for How to See Prayer Answered.
It seems like everyone lies about, well, just about everything these days. But are all lies the same? Does God care if we tell a "little white lie" to protect someone's feelings? How important is it to tell the truth?
Join us Sunday for James 5:12.
People require patience. Have you noticed? Some more than others. Instead of retaliating, slandering, or complaining - God calls to patience. So how do we have patience with difficult people?
Join us Sunday for James 5:1-11.
What is your “5-Year Plan”? There’s nothing wrong with making plans, but there certainly is a wrong way to make plans.
Join us this Sunday, and bring your plans for 2024 with you so we can do this right.
No.
We can’t.
At least, that’s been the testimony of history. Since Cain and Abel, all we do is hate and fight and murder.
Is this what God wants? Obviously not, but relational problems show up, even in His church. What’s the solution?
Join us for James 4:1-12.
I think we all think we are wiser than we actually are. James, as usual, calls us to the carpet. You think you are a wise person? It doesn’t matter how many books you’ve read or how good you are at Jeopardy! Biblical wisdom is evaluated on one thing and one thing only: How faithfully do you apply what you know? In other words: how do you live?
Maybe we really AREN’T as wise as we think, after all. Join us for another reality check from the book of James as God tells us How to Be Wise.
Have you ever said something that you immediately regretted?
Has a careless comment or joke ever slipped out of your mouth that you wish you could take back?
We’ve ALL been there, right? We have all been on the giving and receiving end of bad speech. We have all stumbled in this area of life without exception. BUT this doesn’t give us a hall pass to just say whatever we want whenever we want. Because true faith leads to transformed speech. You cannot claim to know and love Jesus if your tongue is completely out of control.
Join us this Sunday as we study James 3:1-12 and learn how to watch our mouths.
Are you a person of faith? I suppose that depends on what you mean by “faith”.
If you have Biblical faith - true, believing, saving faith - it always results in good works. It must show up in your life. Otherwise, James says your faith is dead - so plan the funeral.
Do you want to live your whole life believing you are saved, when you in fact (from God’s perspective) are not?
Come ready to examine what you believe. More specifically: come ready to examine the evidence that you really believe. Join us Sunday for Intentional Faith: How to Prove You Have Faith.
Are you a biased person?
I think just about everyone would say “Absolutely not! I love everyone the same!”
But do you really? You’ve never showed partiality for one type of person over another?
It’s a sin and it needs to stop - especially in God’s church.
Is it really a big deal? It is to God. Join us Sunday for James 2:1-13 - How to Love People Like God.
I wasn’t being fed at church! I’ve heard people say that - about all kinds of churches. Have you ever said that?
For sure, the church needs to be faithful to the word - but it’s not always the church’s fault. Many times - you just didn’t show up ready to eat.
Let’s fire up that appetite. Come to church Sunday and we’ll discover how to get the most out of it!
We all face trials - AND we all face temptation. We know we shouldn’t give in - and then we give in - and then we feel horrible about ourselves. We know it’s not what God wants for us. We don’t even really want it. But somehow, at the same time, we do want it (apparently) because we give into it.
How do we win? Join us this Sunday for a battle plan from God as we dive into James 1:13-18.
Faith. We throw that word around… a lot. And we can define it pretty easily: faith is believing what God says in His Word to the degree that it actually determines my conduct. So what does that look like?
The book of James tells us exactly what that looks like. Sort of a New Testament version of Proverbs, James gives very practical ways that faith manifests in the life of a Jesus-follower.
This year, we want to Get Intentional - and there’s no better way to get on that train than to study James. This Sunday kicks off Intentional Faith: A How-To Guide.
First up is a doozy. It’s the one we all struggle with: dealing with the trials and hardships in life. But James doesn’t say just grin and bear it, or white-knuckle your way through it. Trials do great things for you - and in you - that nothing else can.
Join us for How to Profit from Trials.
