If God Is So Good, What’s Up With All The Bad Stuff In This World?
This message given at Hope Church in November 2019 focuses on the problem of suffering and evil in a world made by an all loving and all powerful God.
James On Justice (An Appeal For Classless Christianity) James 5:7-20
James’ vision for the Church was where the rich and poor sit next to each other, embracing each other in mutual, symbiotic relationships wherein the r...
James On Justice (An Appeal For Classless Christianity) James 5:1-6
James 5:1-6 -- addressing and undressing classism in the Church… You can’t be the kind of Christian that James describes and, at the same time, judge ...
James On Justice (An Appeal For Classless Christianity) James 4:1-17
God does allow a lot of people to acquire wealth to use for his glory, but to make consumptive acquisition a universal promise for all and an evidence...
James On Justice (An Appeal For Classless Christianity) James 3:1-18
No one has more “envy and selfish ambition” than the devil and he’s happy to share it with anyone willing to log in and download it… Christians who ar...
James On Justice (An Appeal For Classless Christianity) James 2:8-26
You’d think it would go without saying that we should check our prejudices at the church door for at least an hour of worship, but apparently we can't...
James On Justice (An Appeal For Classless Christianity) James 1:12-2:7
A rich guy gets a good seat and the poor guy who sits on the floor of the church! Not exactly what Jesus envisioned!
James On Justice (An Appeal For Classless Christianity) Introduction Part 2
Here's part 2 of my intro to the Epistle of James; this time focusing on the writer and how he mirrored the practice and teaching of his 1/2 Brother, ...
James On Justice (An Appeal For Classless Christianity) James 1:1-11
In the world, some are disdained and others acclaimed for their socioeconomic station, but for followers of Jesus those distinctions are irrelevant. C...