The image that instantly enters my mind as I read these verses is that of the Romanian Pastor, Richard Wurmbrand, imprisoned and tortured...

This letter was written by the apostle Peter to a large group of Gentile believers who had been dispersed over a large area of the Roman...

Testimonies are always encouraging and stick in your mind for a long time after you have heard them, but one that has stuck with me for...

Prayer is an astonishingly powerful gift. It can bring healing, it can bring drought and rain. This is also a huge challenge delivered by...

These are probably the most read of all the paragraphs in this letter and difficult to understand. In one sense they are straightforward:...

The early believers were not in a position where they could be passively waiting for the second coming of Jesus Christ. They were under...

The early church had a strong belief that Jesus was about to appear for a second time which would draw history to a close. Paul makes...

James is intent on demonstrating to his readers that wealth is not only a useless commodity, but potentially harmful. In this he is...

James writes about the sin of slander, defined as saying critical things about someone else when they are not present or in a position to...

What James writes here may be considered to be apposite for some parts of the twenty first century Western church. When I took a short...

This whole letter would have been hard for the early believers to read and try to accept and adapt to live by. There is not much...

Ambition by itself is not a bad thing: obviously there is the ambition to do the very best you can to follow Jesus Christ and there can...

I like to think of the character of Jesus as like a diamond with many faces. We are multi-faceted creatures, but unlike Jesus, we have...

In the United States, ex-President Donald Trump is being impeached for things he said a few weeks ago when he was still President which...

I think that this passage is why the letter of James fell into disfavour with Martin Luther. He crusaded the principle that believers are...

James summarises this section of his letter by reminding his readers of the two salient facts of Christian living: 1. Christian believers...

Throughout its history, Christianity has had a special message for the poor in this world. The opening sermon which Jesus gave (Luke 4 v...

I think that in many church fellowships in the prosperous first world the situation may be the reverse of what James is condemning here...

James sees clearly that conversion-that period when the Word of God becomes planted in the heart- is only the beginning: there are lots...

We have noted as we have studied some of Paul's letters that he is prone to using eloquent and erudite phrases to describe God's love and...