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The Epistle of James is now Available!
October 3, 2017 by Sam Storms
Several weeks ago I announced that my entire series of sermon notes on the book of Hebrews was available on my website. Today I’m happy to tell you that all twenty-two lessons on the book of James are now posted. If you are unfamiliar about how to access these documents, simply click on Resources at the top of the Home page, and then on Articles. Look under Biblical Studies, and at the bottom of the list you will see both Hebrews and James. These twenty-two articles are essentially a verse-by-verse analysis of James. I hope and pray you will find them helpful in your life or ministry, or in both.
The "sweetest joys and delights" of all
By: Sam Storms
The "sweetest joys and delights" of all
By: Sam Storms
“Sometimes, only mentioning a single word caused my heart to burn within me; or only seeing the name of Christ, or the name of some attribute of God. And God has appeared glorious to me, on account of the Trinity. It has made me have exalting thoughts of God, that he subsists in three persons; Father, Son and Holy Ghost. The sweetest joys and delights I have experienced have not been those that have arisen from a hope of my own good estate; but in a direct view of ...Read More ➔
Good Health and God's Will
1By: Sam Storms
Good Health and God's Will
By: Sam Storms
“Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul” (3 John 2). Many of those in the Word of Faith or Health and Wealth camp argue on the basis of 3 John 2 that God always wants his children to be physically healthy. He wants all to “go well” with us and for each believer to “be in good health, as it goes well” with our “souls.” But can it be demonstrated f...Read More ➔
A Love Beyond Degree
1By: Sam Storms
A Love Beyond Degree
By: Sam Storms
I read the Old Testament story of Hosea with shock and amazement. Hosea may have lived 2,700 years ago, but his idea of marriage wouldn't have differed greatly from mine. Like most other men, he wanted a wife who was faithful and pure and gentle and loving. He didn't get one. Hosea married a whore. Sorry, but there's no reason to tone down the language. Hosea's wife, Gomer (I've often wondered if she had a brother named Goober!), was a whore, a prostitute. She was unfai...Read More ➔
Go, Send, or Sin
By: Sam Storms
Go, Send, or Sin
By: Sam Storms
“Beloved, it is a faithful thing you do in all your efforts for these brothers, strangers as they are, who testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey in a manner worthy of God. For they have gone out for the sake of the name, accepting nothing from the Gentiles. Therefore we ought to support people like these, that we may be fellow workers for the truth” (3 John 5-8). What is going on here? Apparently some it...Read More ➔
"Keep everything hazy in his mind"
By: Sam Storms
"Keep everything hazy in his mind"
By: Sam Storms
“Last month Exodus International became the opposite of what it had been. It went from helping men and women to be free of sexual strongholds to helping them feel they are OK with Christ in their sexual strongholds. The gap between ‘Christ accepts you as you are and cleanses you of your sins’ and ‘Christ accepts you as you are, period” is the width of the Grand Canyon. But shoe-horn enough God-words into the announcement and you will win ove...Read More ➔
Becoming a "World" Christian
1By: Sam Storms
Becoming a "World" Christian
By: Sam Storms
To be a “world” Christian simply means that you have consciously, sincerely, and sacrificially reordered your life around God’s global purpose to glorify himself. A “world” Christian is a believer who has made God’s global purpose a priority in terms of how you pray, what you read, where you spend your time and energy, and perhaps most important of all, what you do with your money. In his book, In the Gap, David Bryant defines “...Read More ➔
Healing Miracles and Saints
1By: Sam Storms
Healing Miracles and Saints
By: Sam Storms
As you’ve probably heard by now, Pope Francis recently fast-tracked the sainthood of two popes: John Paul II (d. 2005), and John XXIII, who led the church in the early 1960’s. In an article in The Week (July 19, 2013), describing this development, two things stood out to me. First, “Francis declared that John Paul had performed two miracles needed for canonization, with the healing of two very sick women who prayed to him.” This is the identical ...Read More ➔
"Between he and Stan Van Gundy" - Grammatical Gripes (2)
1By: Sam Storms
"Between he and Stan Van Gundy" - Grammatical Gripes (2)
By: Sam Storms
What is the single most common grammatical error made today in both speech and writing? A few days ago I was in my truck listening to sports talk radio. The host was talking about the recent signing of Dwight Howard by the Houston Rockets. In the course of his comments he referred to Howard’s previous struggles, particularly in Orlando where there was an on-going dispute “between he and Stan Van Gundy” (former coach of the Magic). So, what’s wron...Read More ➔
Envy, Pride, and Spiritual Gifts (3)
By: Sam Storms
Envy, Pride, and Spiritual Gifts (3)
By: Sam Storms
We’re now ready to look at the second remedy Paul prescribes to help heal the body of Christ of a disease in which some of its members are persuaded they are useless to everyone else. (2) Paul’s response to those of you who feel useless in the church is to say that your way of thinking is a denial of and a rebellion against the wisdom and goodness of God himself. I know that sounds harsh, and someone might say, “Sam, you shouldn’t say things like...Read More ➔
Only desperation opens our eyes to God's love
1By: Sam Storms
Only desperation opens our eyes to God's love
By: Sam Storms
"It is natural . . . for us to trust in ourselves,” wrote James Denney. “It is so natural, and so confirmed by the habits of a lifetime, that no ordinary difficulties or perplexities avail to break us of it. It takes all God can do to root up our self-confidence. He must reduce us to despair; He must bring us to such an extremity that the one voice we have in our hearts, the one voice that cries to us wherever we look round for help, is death, death, death. I...Read More ➔
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