In this week’s episode, we dig into the real reason you aren’t able to get the thing you’ve been begging God for, how the direction we look dictates the way our prayers go, and what it all has to do with archery. We also make one more return to celebrity culture (and how I inadvertently became...

It can be really tricky sometimes to know the difference between well-intentioned (but entirely misguided) wisdom and the kind of wisdom that is whispered directly from God. In this passage of James 3 (including James 3:17), we’ll dig into what, exactly, godly wisdom is, and the three questions you can ask yourself today to accurately...

If you’re like me, you are well-familiar with the words of James 3:8. All of us have said the wrong thing at one point or another. We’ve gossiped, shared inaccurate information (whether or not we knew it), and had to apologize for our mouths and the consequences of our words. James 3:8 commentary Today, we’re...

 We’ve hit upon the key verse for the book (and our James 2:17 commentary) and look at what, exactly, James means when he used the specific Greek words that he did for “faith” and “works” (and how both Abraham and Rahab revealed the state of their faith in their unique stories). And then, we...

There’s a lot going on in this section of verses in our James 2 commentary, with the most prominent theme found in the repeated words “partiality” and “rich” and the repeated theme of judgment. But, beneath the surface, James repeats a few Greek words you would only know are being used if you are looking...