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James
Contributed by Stephen Sheane on Jul 17, 2026 (message contributor)
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1. How To Profit From Your Problems
Contributed on Jul 17, 2026
From the book of James we see how to handle problems when they come. We choose to rejoice, request and relax knowing that God wants what is best for us.
HOW TO PROFIT FROM YOUR PROBLEMS If you listen to UCB radio you will probably have heard a new song by Samantha Ebert called Flowers. In 2023 she was diagnosed with Lyme Disease. Bedridden she dealt with constant pain and was uncertain that she would ever return to normal life. Out of this pain ...read more
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2. How To Win Overtemptation
Contributed on Jul 17, 2026
How do you win over temptation? You need to be realistic, responsible, ready, refocused and reborn.
HOW TO WIN OVER TEMPTATION During the American Civil War, Union troops had taken a small town in South Carolina. The fleeing Confederates had left so much gun powder behind that the Union troops decided to dump most of it in a dried-up ditch. One Union soldier played a joke on his friends. He ...read more
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3. How To Treat People Right
Contributed on Jul 17, 2026
How can we be a welcoming church? You do so by accepting, appreciating and affirming (encouraging) everyone.
HOW TO TREAT PEOPLE RIGHT Back in the late 1800s there was a well-dressed man who entered a church in the Netherlands took a seat near the front. A few minutes later a woman walked down the aisle, saw the stranger sitting in the place she always sat, and bluntly asked him to leave. He quietly got ...read more
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4. How To Have Real Faith
Contributed on Jul 17, 2026
Faith is not just something you say or feel or think or believe. It is something you do.
HOW TO HAVE REAL FAITH Karl Barth was a famous theologian. He lived in Basel, Switzerland. One day he was on a streetcar. A tourist to the city climbed on and sat down next to him. The two men started chatting with each other. "Are you new to the city?" Barth inquired. ...read more
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5. How To Manage Your Mouth
Contributed on Jul 17, 2026
Taming your tongue is important because my it directs where you go, can destroy what you have and displays who you are.
HOW TO MANAGE YOUR MOUTH Years ago, there was a lawyer who loved to attack his opponents through scathing letters printed in newspapers. In 1842, he ridiculed the wrong man. James Shields did not take kindly to the attack against him in the Springfield Journal. Mr. Shields tracked down the ...read more
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6. How To Avoid Arguments
Contributed on Jul 17, 2026
To diffuse a conflict you need to be submissive, sensible, sanctified and sorry.
HOW TO AVOID ARGUMENTS One of the joys of having traveled to many places is that you hear so many different accents. You recognize that a normal Canadian accent is very different to someone from the Southern US, or from England, or from Australia, or from the Caribbean. When we were on the ...read more
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7. How To Stop Playing God
Contributed on Jul 17, 2026
Judging others unfairly is wrong because it misrepresents my failures, misreads the face, misuses the facts, misunderstands the faith and misses the future.
HOW TO STOP PLAYING GOD A priest and a rabbi were standing by the side of the road holding up signs. The rabbi’s read, "The End is Near!" The priest, held up a sign which read, "Turn before it’s too late!" The first driver who went by saw the signs and rolled down his window ...read more
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8. How To Develop Patience
Contributed on Jul 17, 2026
James tells us when to be patient, why to be patient and how to be patient.
HOW TO DEVELOP PATIENCE In 1897, a construction worker by the name of Pearle Wait came up with the idea of mixing fruit flavoring with granulated gelatin. His wife named it "Jell-O." Knowing that it would be something that people would buy, Wait began going door to door trying to sell ...read more