Partnering with Local Churches to Train and Send Missionaries Worldwide
‘Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!’ — James 3:5 In chapter three, James deals with another seemingly unimportant issue in the Christian life that is
‘My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.’ — James 2:1 All of us like to think of ourselves as fair and impartial, but prejudice must be an issue
‘My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;’ — James 1:2 None of us likes trials or looks forward to them. Yet God’s Word instructs us to consider it a joy when we fall into many
‘For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.’ — Hebrews 13:14 Jesus suffered outside of Jerusalem in an unholy place. He became a reproach for us. As His followers, we should be willing to take
‘Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set
‘But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.’ — Hebrews 11:6 The most essential thing for
‘Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and he that
God made a covenant with His people Israel that included a tabernacle and a sacrificial system. The nature of this covenant is temporary. The fact that the sacrifices had to be repeatedly offered shows their transitory nature. The new covenant
‘For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them
‘Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.’ — Hebrews 7:25 For those familiar with the centuries-old Levitical priesthood established by the
