James answers questions like: How should Christians handle trials? Should we throw in the towel when adversity comes our way? Should we blame God and go back to our old ways?

He told them an hour was coming when He would speak plainly of the Father... the riddles and figurative language would be over.

Sometimes discerning whether a riddle is a riddle... is a riddle.

Jesus had told them He wouldn’t leave them as orphans. He told them that the Father would give them another Helper and that He would be with them forever.

The world hated Him first.

What a friend we have in Jesus

Jesus is the vine. God is the vinedresser. We are the branches and it is essential for the branches to abide in the vine.

Did Adam and Eve have bellybuttons?

Obedience is the only proof of our love for God.

We don’t merely celebrate something that happened 2,000 years ago when we celebrate Christmas. We celebrate the coming of the Son of God, who made it possible for the Spirit of God to indwell us today.