We all struggle with the ugly sin of showing partiality. We take a look at what is going on under the surface in these moments and how we can fight by God's grace to change.

Plague 8 is the plague of locusts. Here in this passage we get a purpose statement for the plagues that is different from the earlier ones. We already saw that God is doing this so that the nations may know. Now we are told it is that our children may know.

Jerry, Fred, and Mark helped walk us through James' famous "be doers of the word and not hearers only" section of James 1.

Scott preached a very powerful message on the seventh plague. There is much that is relevant to our lives.

Allen leads us in congregational prayer on materialism, comfort, and eternity.

Here we see Paul use himself (positively) and the wilderness generation (negatively) as examples to encourage his readers not to fall away from the faith. We also take note of the typology that exists between the Old Testament, Jesus, and ourselves.

Jerry, Fred and Mark helped walk us through the opening section of James' convicting, encouraging and practical letter.

We cover plagues 4-6 today. Our focus is particularly on the foolishness of our own idolatry and the need to trust in the one true God of Scripture.

Jerry reminds us that we must trust God's word above our deceitful hearts.

Allen powerfully reminds us of our tendency to complain by comparing our hearts to the hearts of those who wandered in the wilderness for those 40 years.