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What does real faith actually look like? James 2 gives us a challenging answer: living faith doesn’t just believe—it moves. It serves. It obeys. It gets its hands dirty. In this message by Preaching Minister Gordon Dabbs, Ph.D., from our IRL: In Real Life series, we explore one of the most debated passages in the New Testament: “Faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.” Are we saved by faith or by works? And how do James…
We live in a world that is constantly ranking people—by success, appearance, wealth, influence, background, and even how easy they are to like. But James says the church should be different. In James 2:1–13, we’re confronted with a challenging truth: favoritism isn’t just a manners problem—it’s a gospel problem. Grace changes the way we see people. When we remember how much mercy we’ve received from Jesus, we become people who are eager to extend that same mercy to others. In…
It’s possible to know a lot of Bible and still resist what God is asking us to do. James gives us a challenge that is simple, direct, and more than a little uncomfortable: “Be doers of the word, and not hearers only.” God’s Word hasn’t completed its work when we hear it, study it, underline it, or even agree with it. The Word completes its work when we live it. In this message from James 1:19–27, Preaching Minister Gordon Dabbs,…