Category: James

Resting on the Ledge

Look here, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we are going to a certain town and will stay there a year. We will do business there and make a profit.” How do you know what your life will… Read More

Sometimes, this is all I know to do…

Is anyone among you suffering? Then he must pray. Is anyone cheerful? He is to sing praises. – James 5:13 Friday was a flat-out terrible day. I heard that the IH I’ve been blaming my troubles on for… Read More

Is God Really Working All Things For the Good?

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. – Romans 8:28 I just love this verse. Many Christians do. We love… Read More

Receiving

Whatever is good and perfect is a gift coming down to us from God our Father, who created all the lights in the heavens. He never changes or casts a shifting shadow. – James 1:17 There’s this crazy… Read More

The Foretaste of Glory

Whatever is good and perfect is a gift coming down to us from God our Father, who created all the lights in the heavens. He never changes or casts a shifting shadow. – James 1:17 I have so… Read More

Longing for a Constant in the Midst of Change?

“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows” (James 1:17) Sometimes I feel like this life of chronic illness and disability is… Read More

Why the Prosperity Gospel is No Gospel At All

For the Lord God is our sun and our shield. He gives us grace and glory. The Lord will withhold no good thing from those who do what is right. – Psalm 84:11 Can I be real with… Read More

Sunday Scripture: 10/5/14

Come close to God, and God will come close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners; purify your hearts, for your loyalty is divided between God and the world. – James 4:8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqm-S9J1s_kVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript… Read More

Review of Catie Conrad: Faith, Friendship, and Fashion Disasters (The Desperate Diva Diaries Series)

And so it happened just as the Scriptures say: “Abraham believed God, and God counted him as righteous because of his faith.” He was even called the friend of God. – James 2:23 For those of you who… Read More

Recommendation Saturday: The Wrong Sound

Sometimes it praises our Lord and Father, and sometimes it curses those who have been made in the image of God.  And so blessing and cursing come pouring out of the same mouth. Surely, my brothers and sisters, this… Read More