James has proposed a goal of peacemaking. Instead we see wars and fights. Reality misses the ideal by a long way.
Palmer St. Podcast: Ending the State of War
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Monthly Archives: August 2012
Palmer St. Podcast: The Right Kind of Wisdom
Heavenly wisdom is that uncommon quality that makes smart people good and good people easier to get along with. See also below: The Inner Ring, by C.S. Lewis, an essay that connects well with this passage.
Palmer St. Podcast: The Body Part from Hell
Winston Churchill was reportedly a master at insults and had famously difficult interactions with the equally sharp-tongued Nancy Astor, the first woman MP. On one occasion, she found the Prime Minister drunk in a hotel elevator. Condescendingly she remarked, “Sir Winston, you are drunk!” to which Churchill replied, “M’Lady, you are ugly. Tomorrow, I will be sober.” In our passage today, James elaborates on the dangers of the tongue, which we might call “the body part from hell.”
Palmer St. Podcast: Putting Our Faith to Work
We all know the type. “Sure I’m a Christian,” they say. And we look at their lives thinking, “Oh Really? I never would have guessed.” James knew the type also – and he attacks them in this passage. He gives us all a reminder that: Our good works are the only part of our faith that anyone will ever see.
James 2.14-26.mp3 (somewhat defective recording)
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