Day 5 – Read James 5 If you missed a previous day you can find them via these links: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4. A Word for the Wealthy It might be hard for us to understand why James is so hard on wealthy people. James’s primary audience is Jewish Christians. Poverty […]
Day 3 – Read James 3 This is the reading for day 3. Here are the links for Day 1 and Day 2. Today James continues to help his readers understand what a living faith looks like. There are more commands in a more compressed space in James than any other book of the New […]
Day 2 – Read James 2 If you missed the first day, then you can find it here. James is helping his readers know what a living faith looks like. A living faith has action behind it. A living faith cares about people. A living faith loves God and other people. And a living faith […]
Introduction James introduces himself to us as “a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ.” (James 1:1) When we read this we might not see the significance of such an introduction, but given who the author is, two things are worth noting. First, James is obviously well known to his readers and the […]
The books between Hebrews and Revelation are letters from the earliest disciples of Jesus to the people they were encouraging and teaching. We get to read these letters and hear the thoughts of these first followers of Jesus: eyewitnesses to the life, death and resurrection. Today we are focusing on the letter of James.