This weeks passage is the center of James letter. He challenges the church to choose who their friend will be: the world or God. With that challenge comes a call to repentance to turn to God and begin to act like his people.

How do the words we say affect the life we live? James gives a powerful understanding of the role our speech plays in our everyday life. Listen in to hear what our words as the church should look like.

As chapter 2 comes to a close, James closes his argument against the church for their treatment of the poor by describing two kinds of faith: one that living and producing good deeds in our life and one that is dead, with nothing to show for it. Living faith is one of the marks of the true church.

James shows how we cannot pick and choose which parts of the law we follow and which we do not. This has ample application to the church today. The church then was struggling with favoritism, what do we struggle with today?

What do the people of faith in Jesus look like? How do they act? James begins to dive deeper into what God's people who profess faith in Him do. Last week he said we cannot just hear, but do. This week he begins to share what 'doing' looks like.

The church is plagued with people who hear but never do. James offers a remedy for this. How do we go from just hearing the word of God to actually practicing it? How do we know we are doers? In James 1:22-27 we get answers to these questions.

James shows two different offsprings: the fruit of human desire and the fruit of God's word. In order to truly receive what God has for us and his 'good and perfect gifts' we have to comes to grips with our true nature.

James shows two people, two ends, and ultimately two friendships in this weeks passage. What is James concerned about in the church as they think through poverty, wealth, power, and priveldge?

James starts off his letter swinging. Right away he makes distinctions about the Christian walk and faith that are important. This week we explore what it means to have 'Perfect Faith' that only comes through trial and testing.

James is one of the most misunderstood books in the Bible. Also the most controversial. Listen in as we begin to explore a letter to the church that has a lot to say about how we do church today.