This week, we are asking the question “What or Whom do you trust?” Verses 1-6 talk about those that put their trust in wealth and money and the consequences of that false god. Verses 7-12 encourages us to trust instead in the one true God in patience and perseverance and we’ll talk about the final section at the end of our time together today.

“Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the Lord's coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains. You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord's coming is near.” James 5:7-8, NIV

Semester Study Guide: James Study Workbook | Sisterhood at River Valley

Week 9 Teacher: Emily Pahl

Make It Yours: Prepare and Reflect 

1. Finish Strong! On the following pages you will find the rest of Chapter 5, the end of the book of James. Read James 5:13-20 at least twice on your own in the coming week and plan to study it with a friend or with a River Valley Sisterhood group. 
2. Journal and expand on what you’ve learned this week and/or take notes of what you’re learning as you read the text and prepare to finish the book of James in the second half of Chapter 5.

These teachings are available via video as well. Find River Valley Women on Vimeo.

With 11 campuses meeting each week and a virtual group for our online campus, we'd love to see you at one of our Sisterhood groups. Sisterhood is a group for women of all ages and stages of life! Whether you are new to your faith or a long-time believer, it is a safe place for you to grow in your relationship with God while building healthy relationships with other women. Find your group here > Register for our next semester of Sisterhood at River Valley!

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In this second half of Chapter 4, James teaches us the believers he was writing to that instead of living for themselves, God's grace is never ending. He reminds them, and us, that submitting and surrendering to the Lordship of Jesus and drawing near to God will in turn bring Him closer to you.

“There's one Lawgiver who's able to save and to destroy. Who are you to judge another?” James 4:12, NKJV

Semester Study Guide: James Study Workbook | Sisterhood at River Valley

Week 8 Teacher: Karla Johnson

Make It Yours: Prepare and Reflect 

1. Read James 5:1-12 at least twice in the coming week to prepare for next week’s teaching.  
2. Journal and expand on what you’ve learned this week and/or take notes of what you’re learning as you read the text and prepare for the coming week in the first half of Chapter 5.

These teachings are available via video as well. Find River Valley Women on Vimeo.

With 11 campuses meeting each week and a virtual group for our online campus, we'd love to see you at one of our Sisterhood groups.Sisterhood is a group for women of all ages and stages of life! Whether you are new to your faith or a long-time believer, it is a safe place for you to grow in your relationship with God while building healthy relationships with other women. Find your group here > Join Sisterhood at River Valley!

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This week in Chapter 4, we are reminded that humility brings us closer to God, but requires us to release our own desires as we submit to Him. In His infinite grace, God invites us to surrender, submit, lay down, and give over our own desires and selfishness and align ourselves with the life of Jesus and become a servant.

“Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.” James 4:7, NKJV

Semester Study Guide: James Study Workbook | Sisterhood at River Valley

Week 7 Teacher: Pastor Morgan High

Make It Yours: Prepare and Reflect 

1. Read James 4:11-17 at least twice in the coming week to prepare for next week’s teaching.  
2. Journal and expand on what you’ve learned this week and/or take notes of what you’re learning as you read the text and prepare for the coming week in the second half of Chapter 4.

These teachings are available via video as well. Find River Valley Women on Vimeo.

With 11 campuses meeting each week and a virtual group for our online campus, we'd love to see you at one of our Sisterhood groups. Sisterhood is a group for women of all ages and stages of life! Whether you are new to your faith or a long-time believer, it is a safe place for you to grow in your relationship with God while building healthy relationships with other women. Find your group here > Join Sisterhood at River Valley!

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In Chapter 3, verses 13-18 James talks about two kinds of wisdom: Worldly or earthly wisdom and heavenly or God’s wisdom. We all need wisdom but we want God’s wisdom.

“But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.” James 3:17-18, NKJV 

Semester Study Guide: James Study Workbook | Sisterhood at River Valley

Week 6 Teacher: Annie Judd

Make It Yours: Prepare and Reflect 

1. Read James 4:1-10 at least twice in the coming week to prepare for next week’s teaching.  
2. Journal and expand on what you’ve learned this week and/or take notes of what you’re learning as you read the text and prepare for the coming week in the first half of Chapter 4.

These teachings are available via video as well. Find River Valley Women on Vimeo.

With 11 campuses meeting each week and a virtual group for our online campus, we'd love to see you at one of our Sisterhood groups. Sisterhood is a group for women of all ages and stages of life! Whether you are new to your faith or a long-time believer, it is a safe place for you to grow in your relationship with God while building healthy relationships with other women. Find your group here > Join Sisterhood at River Valley!

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In this first part of Chapter 3, James begins here by telling us that the tongue is actually an outward indication of inward maturity. Your tongue is small, but it carries great influence. As we direct the content of our hearts, we can change the impact, good or bad, of what comes out of our mouths.

“But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so.” James 3:8-10, NKJV 

Semester Study Guide: James Study Workbook | Sisterhood at River Valley

Week 5 Teacher: Pastor Daralee Utecht

Make It Yours: Prepare and Reflect 

1. Read James 3:13-18 at least twice in the coming week to prepare for next week’s teaching.  
2. Journal and expand on what you’ve learned this week and/or take notes of what you’re learning as you read the text and prepare for the coming week in the second half of Chapter 3.

These teachings are available via video as well. Find River Valley Women on Vimeo.

With 11 campuses meeting each week and a virtual group for our online campus, we'd love to see you at one of our Sisterhood groups. Sisterhood is a group for women of all ages and stages of life! Whether you are new to your faith or a long-time believer, it is a safe place for you to grow in your relationship with God while building healthy relationships with other women. Find your group here > Join Sisterhood at River Valley!

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This week we are learning what it really means to have faith alongside works and we’ll talk about low impact faith vs. high impact faith. Low impact faith believes, but High impact faith influences others, bringing them toward Jesus and builds the Kingdom of Heaven. Our belief, our faith in Him, should change our behavior.

“What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him?” James 2:14, NKJV

Semester Study Guide: James Study Workbook | Sisterhood at River Valley

Week 4 Teacher: Jummy Barlass

Make It Yours: Prepare and Reflect 

1. Read James 3:1-12 at least twice in the coming week to prepare for next week’s teaching.  
2. Journal and expand on what you’ve learned this week and/or take notes of what you’re learning as you read the text and prepare for the coming week in the first half of Chapter 3.

These teachings are available via video as well. Find River Valley Women on Vimeo.

With 11 campuses meeting each week and a virtual group for our online campus, we'd love to see you at one of our Sisterhood groups. Sisterhood is a group for women of all ages and stages of life! Whether you are new to your faith or a long-time believer, it is a safe place for you to grow in your relationship with God while building healthy relationships with other women. Find your group here > Join Sisterhood at River Valley!

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As we head into the first part of Chapter 2 in the book of James, he teaches us that those who put their faith in Jesus simply cannot favor one person over another ever. Believers are to value that which is intrinsic, or internal, not what is external.

“My brethren, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with partiality.” 

James 2:1, NKJV

Semester Study Guide: James Study Workbook | Sisterhood at River Valley

Week 3 Teacher: Kristin Peterson

Make It Yours: Prepare and Reflect 

1. Read James 2:14-26 at least twice in the coming week to prepare for next week’s teaching.
2. Journal and expand on what you’ve learned this week and/or take notes of what you’re learning as you read the text and prepare for the coming week in the second half of Chapter 2.

These teachings are available via video as well. Find River Valley Women on Vimeo.

With 11 campuses meeting each week and a virtual group for our online campus, we'd love to see you at one of our Sisterhood groups. Sisterhood is a group for women of all ages and stages of life! Whether you are new to your faith or a long-time believer, it is a safe place for you to grow in your relationship with God while building healthy relationships with other women. Find your group here > Join Sisterhood at River Valley!

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We’re continuing our study of the Book of James with the second half of Chapter 1. This week we dive into phrases we’ve heard before, but want to truly activate within our faith: Being Quick to Listen and Slow to Speak. Not always an easy task, but easier with James teaches us about what is produced in us and how it is produced.

Semester Study Guide: James Study Workbook | Sisterhood at River Valley

Week 2 Teacher: Beth Zusiak

Make It Yours: Prepare and Reflect 

1. Read James 2:1-13 at least twice in the coming week to prepare for next week’s teaching. 
2. Journal and expand on what you’ve learned this week and/or take notes of what you’re learning as you read the text and prepare for the coming week in the first half of Chapter 2.

These teachings are available via video as well. Find River Valley Women on Vimeo.

With 11 campuses meeting each week and a virtual group for our online campus, we'd love to see you at one of our Sisterhood groups. Sisterhood is a group for women of all ages and stages of life! Whether you are new to your faith or a long-time believer, it is a safe place for you to grow in your relationship with God while building healthy relationships with other women. Find your group here > Join Sisterhood at River Valley!

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Welcome to Sisterhood! We always love to start a new study and this semester, we are going through the Book of James! If this is your first time walking through a Sisterhood study with us, welcome! We are so glad you're here and hope you'll join us for each of the nine weeks of this study through James. While we're happy you've found us on this podcast, we'd love to invite you to be with us in person!

With 11 campuses meeting each week and a virtual group for our online campus, we'd love to see you at one of our in-person Sisterhood groups. Sisterhood is a group for women of all ages and stages of life! Whether you are new to your faith or a long-time believer, it is a safe place for you to grow in your relationship with God while building healthy relationships with other women. Find your group here > Join Sisterhood at River Valley!

“Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.” James 1:2-4, NIV

One more thing: if you prefer video, you can find these teachings in that format on Vimeo. Find River Valley Women on Vimeo. We know this season spent in God’s Word will bless you and grow your faith!

Semester Study Guide: James Study Workbook | Sisterhood at River Valley

Week 1 Teacher: Pastor Becca Ketterling

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Since the beginning of time, people have tried to search for the meaning of life and find

truth in this world. Although the world can seem lost and chaotic, now more than ever, God wants to use Christians to proclaim truth in this world. Today, truth is relative. It is searched for in just about anything and everything. You believe that, I will believe this. So, How do we make God known today, in our culture, where people are pursuing truth in so many other avenues?

Semester Study Guide: Acts Study Workbook | Sisterhood at River Valley

Week 9 Teacher: Pastor Daralee Utecht

Dig Deeper this week: 

This season of Sisterhood is over but there is so much more to this book. We’re challenging you, and every woman in Sisterhood, to finish the Book of Acts. Grab an accountability partner from your table or do this as a group with your table. We always benefit from more time in the Word of God, and finishing this book and sharing discussion with others will greatly deepen your understanding of His Word!

These teachings are available via video as well. Find River Valley Women on Vimeo.

With 11 campuses meeting each week and a virtual group for our online campus, we'd love to see you at one of our Sisterhood groups. Sisterhood is a group for women of all ages and stages of life! Whether you are new to your faith or a long-time believer, it is a safe place for you to grow in your relationship with God while building healthy relationships with other women. Find your group here > Join Sisterhood at River Valley!

Join our community on Instagram: https://instagram.com/rivervalleywomen