A Pilgrim’s Plea: Struggling in a Strange Land Opening story of pilgrimage or being a stranger in a strange land and it being hard. I did much of my international travel during my earlier adult years. That, of course, means that there was no Google Translate, Google Maps, GPS, or anything else that makes…

Introduction: This is a challenging passage. I’m going to exposit it as best I can 13 Is anyone among you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone cheerful? He should sing praises. 14 Is anyone among you sick? He should call for the elders of the church, and they are to pray over him, anointing him with…

Introduction: This is a challenging passage. I’m going to exposit it as best I can 13 Is anyone among you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone cheerful? He should sing praises. 14 Is anyone among you sick? He should call for the elders of the church, and they are to pray over him, anointing him with…

James 5:1-11 – Whole-hearted Devotion  ( James 5:1 ) “Come now you rich people…” 1 Come now, you rich people… First Question: Who are these people? Hint: Has he used the term, “The rich” elsewhere in the letter? Yes! James 2:5-7 5 Listen, my dear brothers and sisters: Didn’t God choose the poor in this…

James 5:1-11 – Whole-hearted Devotion  ( James 5:1 ) “Come now you rich people…” 1 Come now, you rich people… First Question: Who are these people? Hint: Has he used the term, “The rich” elsewhere in the letter? Yes! James 2:5-7 5 Listen, my dear brothers and sisters: Didn’t God choose the poor in this…

4 You adulterous people! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the friend of the world becomes the enemy of God. 5 Or do you think it’s without reason that the Scripture says: The spirit he made to dwell in us envies intensely? 6 But he gives greater…

4 You adulterous people! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the friend of the world becomes the enemy of God. 5 Or do you think it’s without reason that the Scripture says: The spirit he made to dwell in us envies intensely? 6 But he gives greater…

Today is Resurrection Sunday. Here at The Gathering, we say we’re here to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus every week. That’s true. What then makes this special/different? We come together for more than just celebrating the resurrection of Jesus , though nothing less than that. We come here for more…

James, Part 8 – James 2:14-26 Introduction: Some have called this passage in James “the most theologically significant, as well as the most controversial, in the letter of James. It deals with the question of whether belief in Jesus can save you if it’s not accompanied by works . In other words, what…