A Lutheran tries to Preach on James – Trials, Temptations, Perseverance and Absolution

By Parson Brown, on 3:35 pm%

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Martin Luther once called James the “epistle of straw”. He thought is was a bunch of law and not much gospel. His antagonists in Rome also had a knack for using it to point out inconvienent scripture to Brother Martin. James deserves his voice and in the modern church he might . . . → Read More: A Lutheran tries to Preach on James – Trials, Temptations, Perseverance and Absolution

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Thursday – We do it to ourselves

By Parson Brown, on 3:20 pm%

Reading James 4:13-5:6

That chart is the DJIA for the past two years. It reached an all time high on 10/9/07 at 14,164. Yesterday it closed at 7,997, a drop of 43.5% in just over 1 year. James writes about the merchant who says lets go to some town and spend a year . . . → Read More: Thursday – We do it to ourselves

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Wednesday – The Law at work in our bodies

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Reading: James 3:13-4:12

There is a Jewish tradition that lines up the first 5 commandments with the second 5 commandments. It essentially says that trouble in keeping the 1st commandment leads to sin in the sixth. When you stray from GOD you stray from your husband/wife. That theme actually gets played out explicitly . . . → Read More: Wednesday – The Law at work in our bodies

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Tuesday – The Great Relearning

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Reading: James 3:1-12

James was not a book loved by Luther. He called it an epistle of straw. In Luther’s context that was probably a good call. God’s people did not need to hear James as loudly as they needed to hear Paul. Today though, almost 500 years after the reformation, James . . . → Read More: Tuesday – The Great Relearning

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