Week 12: James and the Fatherless Day 5: When It’s Okay To Be Dumb (James 1:19, 20) The silence behind the bathroom door concerned me. I could hear the shower running, but nothing else. There should be movement. I knocked, but there was no answer. “Alosha, what are you doing?” I said loudly. “What?” Came …
NT 12:4 Are You Listening?
Week 12: James and the Fatherless Day 4: Are You Listening? (James 1:19) Don’t you hate that feeling of talking to someone, telling them something really important, all the while knowing they aren’t listening to you? In those moments, it can be difficult to resist the temptation to say, “And then a watermelon crossed the …
NT 12:3 Every Good Gift
Week 12: James and the Fatherless Day 3: Every Good Gift (James 1:17,18) “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.” James 1:17 Some of the things that happen in our lives don’t seem like gifts, …
NT 12:2 Confronting Wrong Reasoning
Week 12: James and the Fatherless Day 2: Confronting Wrong Reasoning (James 1:13-16) Two different kinds of temptation are going on in James 1. The first, the one we have already been looking at, is the testing that God allows in our lives to try and to prove us. Interestingly enough, the word that is …
NT 12:1 The Blessings of Enduring
Week 12: James and the Fatherless Day 1: The Blessings of Enduring (James 1:12) As we work our way through James 1 (previous posts herehttps://forbidthemnot.com/what-the-bible-says-about-the-fatherless/), we’ve reached the first heading for the “Action” column: Endure. We find that title in James 1:12. Although we have already glimpsed much of the needed action, here we find …
NT 11:5 Of Daisies And Dollars
Week 11: James and the Fatherless Day 5: Of Daisies And Dollars (James 1:9-11) Grass does not do well under the burning sun. Last summer, we had a drought, and our yard suffered greatly. We were re-siding the house, and often couldn’t run the sprinklers because of it. We live in a semi-arid climate anyway, …
NT 11:4 – Not For The Faint of Heart
Week 11: James and the Fatherless Day 4: Not for the Faint of Heart (James 1:6-8) What does faith look like in an orphan ministry? The circumstances surrounding faith are rarely pretty. They are rarely simple. But somehow, they always seem to suddenly break out into something glorious, like a brilliant sunrise bursting into the …
NT 11:3 – Faith and Commitment
Week 11: James and the Fatherless Day 3: Characteristics and Necessity of Faith, Part II – Faith and Commitment (James 1:6-8) As we have gone through this study of what the Bible says about the fatherless, we have seen on numerous occasions that faith is a necessary part of such ministry. Both the New Testament …
NT 11:2 No Room For Doubt
Week 11: James and the Fatherless Day 2: Characteristics and Necessity of Faith, Part I – No Room For Doubt (James 1:6-8) God gives one requirement when He tells us to ask for wisdom: He wants us to do it in faith. Faith is a crucial part of our Christian lives. In fact, we cannot …
NT 11:1 The Source of Wisdom
Week 11: James and the Fatherless Day 1: The Source of Wisdom (James 1:5) [Ed. Note – This was written several weeks ago…] Before I crawled out of bed this morning, I already had a specific need for wisdom that wasn’t there when I got into bed last night… that is the nature of orphan …
