Date: 11/29/15
Speaker: Drew Raines
Title: The Church In Prayer
Scripture: James 5:13-18
Description: Throughout his letter James has been showing us what it looks like to live as if we truly believe that God is and that he is for us in Jesus. It makes sense, then, that he would close his letter with a call to prayer. Prayer demonstrates the fear of the Lord that is the source of all wisdom.
Date: 10/22/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: While You Wait
Scripture: James 5:7-12
Description: How does the return of Jesus help us endure the hard things of life with patience? James offers us three examples.
Date: 11/15/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: When Wealth Is Deadly
Scripture: James 5:1-6
Description: With powerful, unmistakeable images James warns us that wealth can lead to our destruction. But how can we recognize when wealth becomes deadly? James gives us two examples. We're in danger when our wealth depends upon hoarding, and when our self-indulgence depends on exploitation.
Date: 11/08/15
Speaker: Shaka Mitchell
Title: Wisdom For Tomorrow
Scripture: James 4:13-17
Description: What is the wise way to think about the future? James warns us against any planning that assumes the future belongs to us. Instead, wisdom means trusting the one who gave his own Son for us.
Date: 10/25/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Friend Or Foe?
Scripture: James 4:4-12
Description: James says you’re either God’s friend or God’s enemy. So what is friendship with God? Who are God’s friends? And how can I pursue friendship with God?
Date: 10/18/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: People Problems?
Scripture: James 4:1-3
Description: James is a down-to-earth letter, so it’s no surprise that he takes up a problem that’s common to all of us: conflict with other people. But what James has to say about our people problems is surprising all the way through.
Date: 10/11/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Who Is Wise?
Scripture: James 3:13-18
Description: James claims that the wisdom of the wise shows up in meekness or humility. Why? Because the wise know wisdom comes as a gift, not an accomplishment. The wise know wisdom is for serving others, not proving themselves. And the wise know wisdom is for making peace, not winning battles.
Date: 10/04/15
Speaker: Bill Heerman
Title: Your Words Matter
Scripture: James 3:1-12
Description: James says your tongue or your speech is to your life what a bit is to a horse or a rudder to a ship. Given this incredible power, what can we do to use our words wisely?
Date: 09/27/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Faith Always Works
Scripture: James 2:14-26
Description: Throughout his letter, and especially in this text, James makes one main point: faith apart from works is dead. But what does James mean? And how should we respond?
Date: 09/13/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: No Partiality
Scripture: James 2:1-13
Description: Genuine faith in Jesus leaves no place for partiality in Christian community. Bottom line: if you want to be with Jesus, you lose the right to be picky about who you’re willing to love.
Date: 09/06/15
Speaker: Matt Givens
Title: Faith That Works
Scripture: James 1:19-27
Description: James wants to show us that genuine faith always makes a difference in how we live our lives. In other words, faith always works. In this passage he shows us why faith works, how faith works, and where faith works.
Date: 08/30/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: The Gifts Of God And The Trials Of Life
Scripture: James 1:1-18
Description: James opens his letter full of commands with perhaps the most surprising command of all. He insists we’re to see the trials we face in life as cause for joy. It is through trials that we grow in maturity, through trials that we’re protected from a faith that’s not genuine. So what sort of trials should we expect? And where can we get what we need to persevere?
Date: 08/23/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Introducing James: Faith Breeds Wisdom
Scripture: James (Various Texts)
Description: To make the most of the letter of James, like any other biblical text, we need to know what it’s meant for and how we should use it.
Date: 08/16/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Resilient Joy
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 11:8-12:8
Description: Ecclesiastes is a book about meaninglessness and death, but it’s also a book about joy. Many times through the book, the author follows up sections on the depressing emptiness of life under the sun by telling us to enjoy ourselves as long as we live. How can we live with joy in a world so full of vanity?
Date: 08/09/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: What Good Is Justice?
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 3:16-4:3
Description: In two places Ecclesiastes laments the power of injustice, and in both places the author ties injustice to the problem of death. If death is our end, why do human lives deserve to be protected equally? And if the just and the unjust both end up dying, why worry with justice at all? Our only hope for the justice we crave is a God who sees all things and will judge us—all of us—after death.
Date: 08/02/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: What Good Is Wealth?
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 5:10-20
Description: When we look to wealth to make us happy or to make us secure, we’re only striving after wind. But when we trust the providence of God we can fully enjoy his gifts, and when we trust the promises of God we can hold his gifts loosely.
Date: 07/26/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: What Good Is Pleasure?
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 2:1-11
Description: Can lots of pleasure make a short life meaningful? That’s the question the author of Ecclesiastes set out to answer with the lavish lifestyle he describes in this passage, a lifestyle where he did anything and everything he wanted to do. His experiment reached an awful conclusion, but his wisdom paves the way for a joyful alternative.
Date: 07/19/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: What Good Is Work?
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 1:1-11
Description: Ecclesiastes catalogs the meaningless of life “under the sun”—the world as it is if there is nothing and no one that lasts forever. The author takes up his first example with a question: what good is all of our work? The answer? It all depends on our perspective. Under the sun, our work is a dead end. But in the Lord, our work is an opportunity.
Date: 07/12/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Introducing Ecclesiastes: What Good Is Wisdom If You're Dead?
Scripture: Ecclesiastes (Various Texts)
Description: Ecclesiastes is probably the darkest book in the Bible. It’s author imagines the meaning of life if all there is to it is what we experience “under the sun”, as if God doesn’t exist. His conclusions sound remarkably modern: everything is meaningless because everything dies. Unless…
Date: 07/05/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Job’s God (Part 2)
Scripture: Job 40:6-42:6
Description: God's final response to Job's anguished questions about innocent suffering is a portrait of two bizarre monsters, called Behemoth and Leviathan. Who are these creatures, and how is this speech meant to encourage Job and us in our sorrow?
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