I was excited to begin our first sermon series together this week, as we started to dive into the book of James. The basic take-away was that James is all about understanding how to live a wise life and for his audience, they needed help with having wisdom for dealing with persecution, with understanding their social standing before each other, and with how to understand temptations. While religious persecution is not something experienced in modern America, the idea of our needing wisdom for temptations and social standing certainly are for us. There's the very simple call of asking God for wisdom and this is something that will be granted to us! - Sermon from 6/6/2021