Today we completed reading the letter of James; it is full of interesting and, at times, challenging thoughts.  He is the leader of the Jerusalem church that you read about in Acts 15 v,13 – and probably the half brother of Jesus. As the chief spokesman for the believers at Jerusalem not long before the city was encircled and finally destroyed by the Roman ...

 Have you seen it?  The context of the above statement we read today in the Epistle of James is most interesting – and challenging!  We can say that we have seen the purpose of the Lord in many things, in particular in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, but note the particular context in which James makes this statement..  ...