Sermons on james 2 14 26:

It's All About Faith : Corresponding Actions Series

Contributed by Mac Hammond on Apr 9, 2013

You cannot live by faith without taking charge of your thought life. Only when you understand this and begin using it this way will your life truly prosper in God.

A. When you begin investing your faith in the Word of God, your life is going to take on a supernatural dimension in terms of the unfolding plan of God for your life. The only way Satan can stop that or slow it down is to bring enough adversity to bear that he begins to shake your faith and cause ...read more

Scripture: James 2:17

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Show Me Your Faith

Contributed by John Teem Jr. on Jan 24, 2013

Faith and Works. Are they a Contradiction or do they Coinide with one another?

“SHOW ME YOUR FAITH” JOHN TEEM JR. WEDNESDAY 1-9-2013 CHAPEL OF REDEMPTION JAMES 2:14-26 INTRODUCTION: Last time we looked at The Prayer of Faith We saw that… Prayer is Asking and Faith is Believing and Believing is Receiving. We saw how most always people received a ...read more

Scripture: James 2:14-26

Denomination: *other

The Living Dead

Contributed by Leonard Cook on Feb 18, 2013

Holiness in Church (2:1-7) Holiness of the Heart (2:8-13) Holiness in Actions (2:14-18)

Background Material James Biographical Info: • The author was James, Jesus’ half-brother; James and Christ had different Fathers (Matthew 13:55; Mark 6:3). • James, also called James the Just, (Matthew 13:55; Mark 6:3). • James was not a believer (John 7:3-5) until after the resurrection (Acts ...read more

Scripture: James 2:1-26

Denomination: Holiness

Saving Faith Series

Contributed by Peter Toy on Mar 12, 2013

Real faith leads to real action.

Real faith leads to real action. When I was going to university I often came home to my hometown on holidays. During one Christmas break, a young man started attending the church. I recognized him. His name was Alan and he was in my grade in the local high school we attended together. My friends ...read more

Scripture: James 2:14-26

Denomination: Baptist

Faith That Works Series

Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Aug 10, 2011

What you believe governs what you do; if you don't do what Jesus commands, you don't really believe what he says. Or some other belief is stronger.

As many of you know, my mother is coming to visit me in a couple of weeks. As a matter of fact, she'll be playing for the Sunday service on the 23rd. And guess what? I'm going to finish emptying out my boxes before she arrives. This is because I know my mother, and I know she'll be here. ...read more

Scripture: James 2:14-26

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Autopsy Of A Dead Faith

Contributed by Adrian Rogers on Aug 30, 2011

Would you turn to James, chapter 2.

Would you turn to James, chapter 2. Now when we look in the Book of James we find a lot of straight talk. James does not beat around the bush. But he says something in the passage that we’re about to study, something very startling, because it almost seems, and a careless reading would make ...read more

Scripture: James 2:14-26

Denomination: Baptist

Dead Or Alive? Series

Contributed by Gregory Mc Donald on Sep 5, 2011

The life of faith is more than a private transaction of the heart with God. It is a life of active consecration seen in the obedience which holds nothing back from God..and the concern that holds nothing back from human need.

DEAD OR ALIVE? JAMES 2:14 26 Read 14 26 Pray James started out chapter 2 by addressing those who have faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. This is the common characteristic of all Christians...it's what binds us together...its what makes us the body of Christ. But v. 14 begins to raise the ...read more

Scripture: James 2:14-26

Faith And Work Series

Contributed by Dr Kory Letoa on Sep 22, 2011

Faith that work

Topic: FAITH AND WORKS. James 2:14-26. James 2:14-26 (MSG) 14 Dear friends, do you think you'll get anywhere in this if you learn all the right words but never do anything? Does merely talking about faith indicate that a person really has it? 15 For instance, you come upon an old friend dressed ...read more

Scripture: James 2:14-26

Denomination: Holiness

A Funeral For A Dead Faith

Contributed by Adrian Rogers on Jan 4, 2012

No corpse can work his way into life. He just can’t do it. He is dead. He has got to receive the life before he works.

The Christian life is just summed up in Grace but the devil doesn’t want you to know that. The devil doesn’t want you to believe that. What the devil wants to do is to try to mix together grace and works. And when we try to mix together grace and works, then grace is not grace at all. ...read more

Scripture: James 2:14-16

Denomination: Baptist

Claiming To Have Faith Series

Contributed by Steve Shepherd on Jan 23, 2012

What God is telling us about true faith versus claiming to have faith. 1- Faith demonstrates good 2- Faith believes in God 3- Faith produces righteousness

INTRO.- ILL.- A guy was coming out of church one day, and the preacher was standing at the door as he always is to shake hands. (You know. The preacher’s job is to: shake them in, shake them up, and shake them out!) Well, he grabbed the guy by the hand and pulled him aside. The preacher ...read more

Scripture: James 2:14-26

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Real Faith For Real Life (Part 2) Series

Contributed by Scott Bayles on Aug 24, 2013

This five part sermon series explores the book of James, which is all about where the rubber meets the road, and discovers what real faith looks like in real life. Each sermon is expository and alliterated. Power point is available.

Real Faith for Real Life: James Two Scott Bayles, pastor Blooming Grove Christian Church: 10/7/2012 You’ve probably heard it a hundred times. It’s one of the oldest preacher stories around. But one day long ago, a world-renowned tightrope walker came to Niagara Falls and stretched his ...read more

Scripture: James 2:14-25

Denomination: Christian Church

Friends Of God

Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Dec 17, 2012

There is a war raging between our self-indulgent nature and God. That war sets us at enmity with our brother, shuts the window of heaven and makes us Friends of the world .... and enemies of God. What can we do to avoid this and be friends of God?

Friends of God James 2:23 James refers to Abraham as, "a friend of God." What a title, what an epitaph. Wouldn't you like to have that said of you? I would. How do we become a friend of God? We will learn that in today's sermon. But first we will look at James's discussion in 4:1-10 He begins ...read more

Scripture: James 2:23

Denomination: Baptist

Tyranny Of The Good Series

Contributed by Rick Burdette on Apr 9, 2012

Priorities, grace, vision, others

TYRANNY OF THE GOOD James 2: 14-17 (p855) February 12, 2012 INTRODUCTION: Here is an amazing statement I believe with all my heart…. “One of the worst enemies of Christians can be good things in the church.” Here is how David Platt begins his book “Radical ...read more

Scripture: James 2:14-17

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Doing What We Love

Contributed by Steven Simala Grant on Apr 11, 2012

Jesus calls us to love to a way of living and being and acting out of a foundation of the revealed, enacted love of God for us, which we then strive to delight in and live out of.

Doing what we love January 15, 2012 Intro: Last Sunday I began by asking us to create a list of some fictional characters that are well known and generally admired by our culture (show list). Then I asked for some adjectives that we might use to describe these characters, and we brainstormed a ...read more

Scripture: James 2:14-19

Denomination: Baptist

Avoiding Dead Faith Series

Contributed by Perry Greene on May 3, 2012

James continues to remind us that faith is active. It is not mere mental assent but obediently imitating God by loving our neighbors.

1. Secret Service A man was coming out of church one day, and the preacher was standing at the door as he always is to shake hands. (You know. The preacher’s job is to: shake them in, shake them up, and shake them out!) Well, he grabbed the guy by the hand and pulled him aside. The preacher ...read more

Scripture: James 2:14-18

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ