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 10:4 The Work of Experience and Hope
Week 10, Part II: James and the Fatherless Day 4: The Work of Experience and Hope (James 1:2-4, Romans 5:3-6, Proverbs 13:12; Psalm 39:7) “Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.” Proverbs 13:12a No one likes disappointment. You hope for something and you hope for something and then — It doesn’t happen. You don’t get the …
