This week Craig continues our walk through James, as James offers us here are three keys to replacing worldly arrogance with Godly humility.

Our High School Paster Shannon Popp joins us to continue in the book of James this weekend. Real Religion is a moral religion without clear moral boundaries. It is not about, "don’t do this, and never do that", but about positive action rather than a grocery list to check off.

True wisdom is what allows us to see the value in others and treat them accordingly. It's not about thinking that we don’t matter…it’s about remembering that others do matter. True wisdom sees the value in others and treats them accordingly. The problem is that true wisdom, the kind of wisdom that sees the value in others and treats them accordingly, isn’t the only kind of wisdom out there. And actually, there’s a whole other kind of so-called wisdom operating in the world that exerts tremendous influence on us.

What James is saying here is basically part two of what he said in the previous passage: faith without works is dead. Anyone who claims to have faith in Jesus but whose life doesn’t show the evidence of God’s transforming work is fooling themselves. As Mike said it last week, Last week: real religion can be seen with your eyes. If you’ve been saved by faith, your life will demonstrate that. If you have fresh water inside you, then saltwater won’t be gushing out. You can tell what kind of tree you’re looking at by the fruit it produces.

This week we had a special Guest Speaker come in all the way from Mount Hermon! Come listen to Pastor Mike Comberger as he takes us through James and show us that our behavior changes because our heart has been changed by Jesus himself. Tha's how we know that we have Real Religion - authentic faith.

It's time for a priority reboot. Being the most kind to those with the least with the least to offer us is counterintuitive. But that’s because what we are still driven by the world’s value system. Listen to learn some important steps to a reboot of your priorities.

We have a tendency to do the same thing when it comes to religion. As Christians we often say that people are either believers or unbelievers, decided or undecided, lost or saved. But the passage we’re looking at today in the book of James suggests that those categories might not be the ones we should be using. 

There’s no shortage of counterfeits in the world, but don’t let religion be one of them. True faith isn’t a set of ideas, but truth revealing itself in action. If what we believe doesn’t play out in what we do day in and day out, then maybe our religion isn’t as real as we’d like to think it is. Join us for the Real Religion series as we are guided by the book of James in tackling practical issues that we all face every day.

If we’re going to be effective witnesses for Jesus, we need to be Spirit-Filled, we also need to be Others-Oriented and then we must absolutely be Gospel-Centered.

MHC Kids is proud to present a resource from our recent U of Orange event we had at Mission Hills on March 12 --Sarah Anderson, co-author of the new student devotional Wired, Reggie Joiner, and Kristen Ivy discuss ways to be intentional with the moments that happen in the rhythm of your week to effectively talk about faith and build a strong relationship with your kids over time.