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  • Be Different Series

    Contributed by Ralph Andrus on Feb 3, 2012
    based on 4 ratings
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    I. Creating the Difference II. Making a Difference a. v. 21 – Renounce b. v. 21 Receive c. v. 21 Recognize v. 21 & 26

    - Some recent psychological research suggests that people’s personalities and character are like wet cement before age 8, - 8 to about age 25 is j change very much, even if they go through significant trauma. - Some people are shattered by life events still no change - Only a few grow and ...read more

  • Do The Word

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Feb 14, 2012
     | 7,039 views

    You know the slogan, 'Do the Dew'? Well, James has a new slogan for us; it's, 'Do the Word'. Let's find out why it's important to be a doer of the word and not just a hearer.

    DO THE WORD James 1:22-25 1) What are the dangers of being a listener only? • We are deceived (Vs. 22). We are deceived if we think that following God’s demands are optional. We are deceived if we think it’s no big deal if we remain a hearer and not a doer. Talk is cheap. We can ...read more

  • Behaving As We Believe Series

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Feb 15, 2012
     | 3,521 views

    Faith is more than a mental understanding of God and his good things, it is action.

    1There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavy on mankind: 2a man to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to enjoy them, but a stranger enjoys them. This is vanity; it is a grievous evil. ...read more

  • Mirror Mirror On The Wall

    Contributed by Ralph Andrus on Feb 17, 2012
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     | 4,897 views

    Mistakes we make while looking into a mirror. 1. v.23-24a - A Passing Glance 2. v.24b - Forgetting What We See 3. v.25 – Ignoring Its Reflection

    Jay Rathman while hunting deer in the Tehema Wildlife Area near Red Bluff in northern California, climbed to a ledge on the slope of a rocky gorge. As he raised his head to look over the ledge above, he sensed movement to the right of his face. A coiled rattler struck with lightning speed, just ...read more

  • Real-Igion

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Feb 21, 2012
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     | 3,183 views

    In today’s passage, James wants to keep us from the deception that being religious is merely going through a set of rituals and motions. James doesn’t want us to be deceived into thinking the more I exemplify religious behavior the more spiritual I am. Le

    REALIGION James 1:26-27 INTRODUCTION: Preventing deception is a major theme for James (1:1:16, 22, 26). In today’s passage, James wants to keep us from the deception that being religious is merely going through a set of rituals and motions. James doesn’t want us to be deceived into ...read more

  • Unfavortism

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Feb 27, 2012
    based on 3 ratings
     | 6,867 views

    There’s a saying, ‘the clothes make the man’. Actually, that’s not true. Clothes don’t make the man; they make the opinion of the man. The stigma is that nicer looking, nicer dressed people are more important. And we see from the text today that things we

    UNFAVORITISM James 2:1-13 INTRODUCTION: There’s a saying, ‘the clothes make the man’. Actually, that’s not true. Clothes don’t make the man; they make the opinion of the man. There’s a certain image that’s portrayed when someone is dressed nice. And ...read more

  • Creed Or Deed? Series

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Feb 29, 2012
     | 5,709 views

    What matters the most in our walk with God? Faith is not just metnal acknowledgement of the living God but actions to affirm him in our lives.

    Did you ever wonder where that expression The Real McCoy comes from? According to the folks at phrases.org, nobody really knows for sure. Several possibilities are often cited. • Some think it came from the advertisements for a brand of Scottish whiskey from the 1870’s. To combat cheap ...read more

  • Pure Religion

    Contributed by Stephen E. Trail on Mar 4, 2012
     | 6,648 views

    A sermon about the contradiction between vain and pure religion.

    “Pure Religion” James 1:22-27 Scripture Reading James 1:22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: 24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his ...read more

  • The Marriage Of Faith And Deeds

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Mar 5, 2012
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    Some people live under the separation of faith and deeds. But they were destined to be together. And what God has joined together, let man not separate.

    THE MARRIAGE OF FAITH AND DEEDS James 2:14-26 1) James 2:14-18. • Faith, like love, is an action word (vs. 14-18). If a man who merely says I wish you well but does not act upon that wish by feeding his fellow man then it is not true faith. True faith expresses itself in love. Gal. 5:6b, ...read more

  • Superficial Or Supernatural

    Contributed by Adrian Rogers on Mar 27, 2012
    based on 11 ratings
     | 36,447 views

    Your religion, is it superficial or is it supernatural?

    Introduction Your religion, is it superficial or is it supernatural? You’re going to find two kinds listed here in James chapter 1 beginning in verse 26: “If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is ...read more

  • Of Books And Covers Series

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Mar 29, 2012
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,806 views

    Judgmental discrimination is a significant sin. Jesus breaks down the barriers and we must follow his lead!

    1. Favoritism – Visitor Survey Back in the 1980’s, a man visited 18 different churches of differing beliefs to find out what churches are really like. The man said that he sat near the front. After each service he walked slowly to the rear; then returned to the front; and then back to ...read more

  • Tyranny Of The Good Series

    Contributed by Rick Burdette on Apr 9, 2012
     | 3,354 views

    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

  • Doing What We Love

    Contributed by Steven Simala Grant on Apr 11, 2012
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,261 views

    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

  • Avoiding Dead Faith Series

    Contributed by Perry Greene on May 3, 2012
     | 6,016 views

    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

  • Exorcising A Demonic Faith Series

    Contributed by Perry Greene on May 10, 2012
     | 3,613 views

    James continues the warning against having a lifeless, dead faith by reminding us that even the Adversary and his legion believe in God but do not obey him in proper actions.

    1. Johnny Carson Exorcist Joke When the movie, “The Exorcist” came out, Johnny Carson was the host of the Tonight Show. My very favorite joke he told was about the movie. He asked Ed McMahon, “What happens if you don’t pay your exorcist?” Ed repeated the question and ...read more