Key Verse: James 5:16

Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.

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James encourages his readers to be a community that is praying together, sharing life's ups and downs, confessing sin, while encouraging and challenging one another. Imagine what that would look like for them - and for us!

Key Verse: James 5:2-3

Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days.

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Whoa! James is "preaching fire" here this Sunday!! Who is he speaking to? And why would I need or want or have anyone speak like that to me?

Key Verse: James 4:14-15

Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”

Sermon Snapshot: We all make a variety of plans: plans for dinner, plans for work, plans for our family, plans for retirement. But as much as might hope to, we cannot determine outcomes. Head out for your favorite dinner, but if they just served the last portion, you won’t be eating what you set out for. Planning to control our future is bound to face frustrations. Planning in order to be available to obey My Faithful Savior will always be an adventure.