Stephen McDonald

Wisdom from Heaven (James 3:13-4:12)

Practice Heavenly Wisdom (3:13-18) Reject Worldly Desires (4:1-6) Receive God’s Grace (4:7-12) Sunday 8th October 2017

Taming Your Tongue (James 3:1-12)

1. Recognise Your Words are Powerful but Imperfect (v1-5a) 2. Reject Destructive Words (v5b-6) 3. Reject Duplicitous Words (v7-12) 4. Change the Heart of Your Words (v11-12) Sunday 1st October 2017

Is Your Faith Dead? (James 2:14-26)

1. Don’t Think that Feelings are Faith (v14-17) 2. Don’t Think that Thinking is Faith (v18-19) 3. Don’t Think that Works are Optional (v20-26) Sunday 24th September 2017

The Sin of Favouritism (James 2:1-13)

1. Don’t Show Favouritism (v1-4) 2. Why Favouritism is So Wrong (v5-11) a. Favouritism Forgets God’s Choice to Give the Poor Riches (v5-6) b. Favouritism Doesn’t Make Sense in Experience (v6-7) c. Favouritism Breaks the Royal Law of Love (v8-11) 3. Favouritism will be Judged (v12-13) Sunday 10th September 2017

Hearing & Doing God’s Word (James 1:19-27)

Lay Aside Your Anger to Produce Righteous Religion (v19-21) Do the Word to Be Blessed by Unforgetful Religion (v22-25) Restrain Your Tongue to Preserve Useful Religion (v26-27) Sunday 3rd September 2017