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…
John MacArthur The Word is our source of deliverance from temptations and trials. It becomes the most welcome friend, not only because of what it delivers us from but also…
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…
Douglas Moo ”Steadfastness (hypomoné) is not meek, passive submission to circumstances, but a strong, active, challenging response in which the satisfying realities of Christianity are proven in practice.” ”Believers are…
"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]…
A bond-servant, or slave, is a person deprived of all personal freedom and totally under the control of his master. Absolute obedience and loyalty to his master (who provided him…
“War, said the preacher, was not to be viewed as the interruption of personal convenience and of the enjoyments of life. Something far more serious was involved. War is divine…