This verse promises ‘the fruit of righteousness’, as the reward ‘for those who make peace’. Peacemakers produce! In the atmosphere of peace, peacemakers create, the harvest of righteousness. eirēnikē, i·ray·nee·kos…
The central message of Christianity is not a worldview, a way of life, or a program for personal and societal change; it is a gospel. From the Greek word for…
The believer, in himself, will always deserve God’s judgment: our conformity to the ‘royal law’ is never perfect, as it must be (vv. 10–11). As Hort describes the image, ‘krisis…
Here is the link to the Bible Project video on 'the law', which is so central to this section of James' teaching! Please watch it a few times and slow…
Lloyd-Jones “Men create various groups, according to our ancestors, the race to which we belong, intellectual training, wealth or poverty, etc., etc., but in the sight of God there are…
Isaiah 11 1 There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit. 2 And the Spirit of the Lord shall…
"He drank neither wine nor fermented liquors, and abstained from animal food. A razor never came upon his head, he never anointed with oil, and never used a [public]…