James finishes his pointed paragraph by describing the EXAMPLES of TRUE FAITH. You will be surprised, encouraged, and challenged by the half-brother of our Lord as he continues in this first NT epistle as he describes SAVING FAITH using Abraham, Rahab, and a dead body as examples.

Download the Sermon Outline The Deception of False Faith The test of righteous works–James 2:14-26, part 1 verses 14-20 Dead Faith One of the biggest concerns of genuine Christians is those they know who are lost. And of those who are lost, the ones they are most concerned for are those who think they’re saved,…

We will be back into James this Sunday, with PART 2 of the

opening verses of James 2, again showing us God’s disdain for the sin of partiality, and calling us to LIVE like we have been forgiven, because we have!!

Download the Sermon Outline Confession and the Christian Life “This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. 6If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not…

The pursuit of true peace is impossible without the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives - it is the fruit, the evidence He dwells in us. We simply can’t do it only in our own strength, no matter how hard we try.

We open up chapter 2 and deal with partiality. Our Savior and Lord is very concerned about HOW YOU and I as His children, treat other people, even people that we don’t know well, or people who are different than us.

We get a helpful exhortation from James 1:22-27 to build the daily habit of OBEDIENCE to God’s Word; not just being a HEARER but a DOER of the Truth!

What kind of people do we need at Faith Bible Church as we move into a new facility? You might think that hard-working, practically perfect people would be the ideal. Nothing could be further from the truth. God desires the church to be filled with imperfect, failed and flawed people who will depend entirely upon Him. He doesn’t want your pretend-perfection. He wants you to trust Him entirely with all of your life.

JAMES transitions to a new topic, challenging his readers in a whole new way, and tests believers over their response to God’s Word. Today, in doctrinally sound churches, we find the same responses to the preaching and teaching of the Bible. There is the response of HEARING ONLY and the response of HEARING and DOING.

Gentleness is an inner attitude of the mind and heart that is completely surrendered to God’s will. It accepts every circumstance as God’s good for us and does not argue against or resist anything He brings our way.