by lightinthedesertchurch | Oct 15, 2025 | News
Church Family, This past Sunday, as we continued our series in James, we were warned of the sin of arrogance that makes itself known when we plan out our lives based on our own desires and expectations rather than on the will and providence of God. In our time...
by lightinthedesertchurch | Oct 8, 2025 | News
Church Family, This past Sunday, as we continued our series in James, we were warned once again about the dangers of our speech, especially judgmental speech. James’ point is not that we should never correct a brother or sister who is straying from obedience to...
by lightinthedesertchurch | Oct 1, 2025 | News
Church Family, This past Sunday we we looked at James 4:1-10, though perhaps is might be more accurate to say that the passage took a good long look at us as it bluntly identified many of the evils of our human hearts. The passage, and by extension the sermon, had a...
by lightinthedesertchurch | Sep 24, 2025 | News, Uncategorized
Church Family, This past Sunday, as we continued our series in James, we looked at the wisdom that comes down from above as discussed at the end of chapter 3. It is easy for us to be given to worldly wisdom, that is a kind of so-called “wisdom” that places...
by lightinthedesertchurch | Sep 17, 2025 | News
Church Family, This past Sunday, as we continued our series in James, we were told in no uncertain terms about the danger of reckless speech. Sinful words are such a pervasive issue that James says anyone who does not fall short in this regard must be entirely...
by lightinthedesertchurch | Sep 10, 2025 | News
Church Family, This past Sunday we looked at a famously difficult passage of James in which we are told that “faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. As a church that confesses that salvation is through faith alone, this phrase may be upsetting to...
