Tag: Christian wisdom
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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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Reflecting on James 3 1-12
We are studying James 3:1-12 for Sunday, August 23 – we might call it a text on speech, or perhaps self-expression, probably not “communication,” although we could think about that. Also, a text we studied just a couple of years ago. [Some notes on the text are here, and also here.] We may find the…
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Studying James 3 1-12
We are studying James 3:1-12 for Sunday, August 23. Once again, we studied this particular text in James a couple of years ago. After I reinvented the wheel this time around, I realized that I didn’t have a lot to add to the notes I made at that time, but here is the little that…
Matters of Interpretation 