Tag: James 2
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Reflecting on James 2 1-13
We are studying James 2:1-13 for Sunday, November 29 (which is also the First Sunday in Advent); this is James’s critique of “partiality” in the church. [A few notes on this text are here.] Here are a few questions we might want to consider in our study of the text: Who seems to be the…
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Studying James 2 1-13
We are studying James 2:1-13 for Sunday, November 29 (which is also the First Sunday in Advent), James’s stinging challenge to “partiality” in the church. Here [finally] are a few notes on this text: BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT: We’ve done a lot of work with James recently, so we will likely remember off the top of…
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Reflecting on James 2 14-26
We are studying James 2:14-26 for Sunday, August 16 – the source of the often-quoted Biblical saying “faith without works is dead.” [Some notes on the text are here, and here.] We studied this text not too long ago in our class, and the questions on the text at that time remain relevant, but here…
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Studying James 2 14-26
We are studying James 2:14-26 for Sunday, August 16. This is the third in our series of five lessons in James, and the source of one of the most familiar New Testament sayings, “faith without works is dead.” We actually studied this text in this class a couple of years ago, those notes are still…
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Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
This morning we talked some about what James meant by faith “saving you,” or not as the case may be. We looked up that place in Romans (it turns out to be Romans 3:28) where Paul says “we hold that a person is justified by faith apart from works prescribed by the law,” and then…
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Questions for Reflection and Discussion (James 2 14-26)
The Uniform Series (International Bible Lessons for Christian Teaching) for Sunday, February 4, is James 2:14-26. Here are some questions we might (or might not) find useful for reflecting on and discussing in class: What does the author of the book of James (hereafter referred to as “James”) seem to mean by “faith”? Does this…
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Exegetical Exercise (James 2 14-26)
The Uniform Series text for Sunday, February 4 is James 2:14-26. Here are my notes on the text: First Impressions: Right out of the box he asks “Can faith save you?” – isn’t that what Christians think?? But the example he uses is of someone “saving” another, say from being naked and hungry … so…
Matters of Interpretation 