Tag: book of James
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Reflecting on James 3 13-18 & 5 7-12
We are studying James 3:13-18 and James 5:7-12 for Sunday, August 30. This is a meditation on the signs of genuine wisdom, and an exhortation to patient endurance. [Some notes on the text are here.] Here are some questions we might want to ask of the text, and ourselves: Verse 13 mentions “the gentleness born…
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Studying James 3 13-18 & 5 7-12
We are studying James 3:13-18 and James 5:7-12 as the conclusion to our study of the book of James as a wisdom text, and also as the conclusion to our “summer of wisdom.” [However, James will be coming up again in the Fall, as the conclusion to 13 weeks of studies on love! Those start…
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Studying James 1 1-11
What does the book of James have to do with wisdom? We are studying James 1:1-11 for Sunday, August 2, as the first of five lessons on James in this quarter devoted to Biblical wisdom literature, so it looks like we will be finding out. [Here are some questions on the text.] Here are some…
Matters of Interpretation 