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Buy  my books   " Joy in the Journey "  and  " Song in the Night" on Amazon now 20% goes to missions               Experiencing sound quality issues?  Please Click here   The Power of Words         James 3:1–12 Our scripture today continues with the book of James, chapter 3:1–12. This passage talks a great deal about one organ in our body. James spends almost an entire chapter discussing the tongue, because the words we speak are very important—they make us who we are. He uses some very interesting examples and metaphors to explain this, along with some sharp and challenging words about our tongues and the words we use.    As you remember, James heard stories about problems in the church, and one of those problems was the way people spoke to one another. So, he decided to turn the focus of his letter toward practical ways of liv...

Buy  my books   " Joy in the Journey "  and  " Song in the Night" on Amazon now 20% goes to missions               Experiencing sound quality issues?  Please Click here   Dead Faith and Dynamic Faith    James 2          യാക്കോബ്  2                             The book of James that we started a couple of weeks ago has now brought us into the second chapter. As I told you before, the authors of the books of James and Jude—two brothers—were the half-brothers of Jesus. That’s what historians say. There is another James and Jude who were disciples, but they were the sons of a different father, so they are not the same people who wrote these books. The book of James is a very practical book. It is often called the Proverbs of the New Testament becaus...

Buy  my books   " Joy in the Journey "  and  " Song in the Night" on Amazon now 20% goes to missions               Experiencing sound quality issues?  Please Click here   Good and Perfect Gift    James 1         യാക്കോബ് 1                             I jump from the book of Jude into the book of James because Jude and James are considered by many historians to be the brothers who wrote these letters. They were not part of the disciples or apostles, but they were two brothers who became Christians and wrote these important letters. Eventually, both became priests and bishops in various parts of Turkey and the Asia Minor region. Jude’s brother James wrote this book to a group of people—if you read the entire book, you’ll see it’s only five chapters long. It...

Buy  my books   " Joy in the Journey "  and  " Song in the Night" on Amazon now 20% goes to missions               Experiencing sound quality issues?  Please Click here  House Built on rock    “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?” — Luke 24:32 The parable of the two houses in Matthew 7 is one of those stories we all learned as children in Sunday school. I still remember singing, “The rains came down and the floods came up,” not realizing then how deeply that simple truth would speak to life. Jesus told that parable not only to His disciples but to all of us. Before sharing it, He said, “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.” Then He continued, “Everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into ...