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  • Monte Brown avatar

    God Doesn't Play Favorites

    Contributed by Monte Brown on Jan 13, 2010
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    When anyone walks into this church they must feel like the only one who is getting honored is Jesus Christ and no matter what background that person is from they will respect the fact that God is center focus in his church and not people.

    God Doesn’t Play Favorites James 2:1-13 Monte T. Brown August 21, 2005 Sunday Morning First Baptist Riverton Introduction Shortly after the close of the Civil War, a former slave entered a fashionable church in Richmond, one Sunday morning at the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • John Wright avatar

    Reasons Why Friendliness Toward All Others Is So Important! Series

    Contributed by John Wright on Feb 1, 2010
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    James warns against showing friendliness to some vistors to the service and then not being as friendly to others as we should.

    INTRODUCTION 1. Open your bible to James 2:1&ff. Do you make an effort to shake hands and be friendly with everyone that comes to the services of the church? Or do you just come and go and speak to only a few others? Is there anyone in this building that you haven’t already shook hands with ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    God Doesn't Play Games Series

    Contributed by Monte Brown on Feb 10, 2010
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    God’s Word certainly points out for us what sin is and names it clearly, but God’s Word also helps us to make right decisions about life.

    Review Week before last we started our series of messages called “Raising the Standard.” The first message was entitled “What’s Your Standard.” We found out that things like lying, living together, stealing, murder, abortion, hatred, and all sorts of other things ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Judging Others

    Contributed by Leslie Tarlton on Jan 19, 2014
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    An Expositional series on the book of James

    Judging Others James 2:1-9 Introduction All day long I am around people from India, Pakistan, and other places in the world where they have a very different standard of living. I show up at work, freshly bathed, shaved, wearing men’s cologne, and wearing clean, well pressed, good quality ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    What Must I Do? Never Show Favoritism

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Feb 9, 2014
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    Favoritism robs us of new friends and new ministry opportunities.

    WHAT MUST I DO? YOU MUST NEVER SHOW FAVORITISM JAMES 2:1; ACTS 20:32-35 Acts 20:32 "Now I commit you to God and to the word of his grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified. 33 I have not coveted anyone's silver or gold or clothing. 34 You ...read more

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    Denomination: Nazarene

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    Making A Good Showing Series

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Feb 10, 2014
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    Are you prejudiced or just partial?

    “Faith That Works: Making A Good Showing” James 2:1-13 Suppose you agreed to make some visits on new residents in the South Haven area. You are given two names and addresses, but have time to make only one visit. You discover that the one address is in a very ritzy subdivision, the ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Michael McCartney avatar

    Let's Do This! James 2

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Aug 29, 2013
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    James tells us that if we want to pursue perfection in Jesus then we have to not show favoritism to others, we must have faith with action and by all means guard our tongues.

    Series: Let’s Do This! Summary of Let’s Do this pt 1! What did we learn last week? 1. We need to be like James and do this by being men and women of prayer. a. We need to have nicknames like “Old Camel Knees”. b. We need to understand what prayer will do for us: i. Prayer ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    God's Favorites Have No Favorites

    Contributed by Daniel Habben on Sep 1, 2013
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    Believers know that God's love for all motivates and empowers them to show love to all.

    A man and 24 of his friends and family and were refused service at a restaurant in Charleston, South Carolina. The reason: Michael Brown and his group are African-American. Apparently another customer - a white woman - complained that she felt threatened by their presence and Brown and his ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    The Living Dead

    Contributed by Leonard Cook on Feb 18, 2013
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    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

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    Denomination: Holiness

  • Peter Toy avatar

    The Cure For Discrimination Series

    Contributed by Peter Toy on Mar 9, 2013
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    Mercy is the cure for discrimination

    Mercy is the cure for discrimination. I grew up in a small city in south western Ontario called Sarnia. There were very few Chinese people in the city. In fact when my older sister was born my father received recognition from the mayor since she was the first Chinese born in the city. In school ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Why Faith And Favoritism Cannot Co-Exist Series

    Contributed by Paul Barreca on Mar 24, 2014
    based on 4 ratings
     | 7,672 views

    We cannot keep the faith if we show partiality.

    Mahatma Ghandi was touched by the gospel when he was young. He hoped that the gospel would free India from its Caste system. He went to a church in his neighborhood and was met at the door, dressed in his humble lower class clothes. He was met by ushers who told him that there were other ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Faithing - Faith Without Works Is Dead

    Contributed by J Jeffrey Smead on Sep 9, 2012
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    In the Christian life faith and works go together like inhaling and exhaling. Billy Graham stated it in these terms: Faith is taking the Gospel in; works is taking the Gospel out.

    For those not familiar with an Anglican Service; there are four Scripture Readings before the Sermon. The Scripture Readings for this day were: Proverbs 22:1-2, 8-9, 22-23 ; Psalm 125 ; James 2:1-17 and Mark 7:24-37. Alexander Graham Bell was an amazingly talented person. He invented the ...read more

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    Denomination: Anglican

  • Mike Rickman avatar

    Equal In God’s Eyes Series

    Contributed by Mike Rickman on Sep 28, 2012
    based on 4 ratings
     | 12,952 views

    We need to see others the way that God sees them.

    September 30, 2012 Morning Worship Text: James 2:1-13 Subject: Favoritism Title: Equal in God’s Eyes I grew up in a turbulent time – the 60’s. We saw the attack on our culture from the enemy through music and movies. We saw the assassination of a president. We saw an unpopular war being waged ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • Brian Bill avatar

    Refusing To Play Favorites Series

    Contributed by Brian Bill on Sep 30, 2012
    based on 7 ratings
     | 12,793 views

    If you want God's favor, don't treat people with favoritism.

    Something very interesting happened on Monday night when people who normally hate on the Packers were suddenly on their side when a blown call by the replacement officials gave the win to the Seahawks. Even Bear fans expressed sympathy to me all week. Well, except for one guy who called me a ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Christopher Holdsworth avatar

    Rich And Poor In The Church Of Jesus Christ

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Dec 31, 2013
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    There are no 'untouchables' with God!

    RICH AND POOR IN THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST. James 2:1-17. James 2:1. The Greek of this section of the letter of James begins somewhat abruptly: “My brethren, not with partialities!” The impact of the whole sentence is: “Do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ with respect of persons.” ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational