What sort of plans do you make in your life? In this passage, James challenges his readers and us to think about the source and goal of our plans. Pastor Bruce continues our Renew series.

Pastor Bruce explores what causes fights and what causes quarrels among us. Hint: it's inside us and only God's grace is able to address it.

James contrasts two different types of wisdom: wisdom from above and wisdom that is not. Isaac Vineyard challenges us to think carefully about how we label each.

Sticks and stones... We all know the saying, but in this passage James calls the church to see just how powerful words can be. Hear as Pastor Bruce shares how words can be used to harm—and to heal.

This passage often turns Christians around. Are we justified by faith alone, or do we need works, as well? Pastor Bruce invites us to hear anew James's challenge to the church.

Today we often talk about discrimination, but James comes at the same topic from a different angle as he confronts his readers with the sin of favoritism, which was cropping up in the church with negative consequences. Pastor Bruce preaches a sermon on how grace is the key to unlocking our struggles with how we treat others.

This fall's Renew series continues with a sermon on self-deception and the truth of the gospel. Pastor Bruce encourages us to not get stuck in false dichotomies and instead to be both hearers and doers of the word.

In his third sermon on James, Pastor Bruce challenges us to consider where precisely our desires come from. And as we begin to see the fatal attractions we face, what can we do about it?

In the second sermon for our fall Renew series, Pastor Bruce explores the practical wisdom that James is giving to his readers. We live in a difficult, complex world, but God gives us the wisdom (and then some) to match.

09/09/18 - iving In The Real World - James 1:1-4 by EP Church Annapolis