I’m too lazy to look up the author of this quote (forgive me, brilliant author), but I love it: Humility isn’t thinking less of yourself; it’s thinking of yourself less. I don’t have a lot of great ideas today for living out James 4. So I’m going to practice humility by thinking of myself less. And I’m going to ask God for his wisdom on how to do this. I think the logical place to …

Can we really be almost done with James already?? Holy cow! What will I do with all my free time?? (besides memorizing the last 81 verses of the book and getting ready to go to CAMBODIA!) Going for a little shorter and sweeter this week. A couple of these verses fit my life so perfectly right now I snickered out loud when I read them. Starting with verse 6–“God opposes the proud but gives grace …

You know you’re feeling convicted of something when you carry on a conversation like this with yourself: Let’s skip the application of the James chapter for this week and blog about something else tonight. Nice try. Why do you want to skip it? You didn’t skip Chapters 1 and 2. Yeah, but those had more concrete action steps. Like giving construction paper to poor kids and stuff. This one has concrete action steps too. I …

Well, folks. James has done it. He’s written a chunk of verses that’ve rendered me speechless. I’ve had such a big problem controlling my tongue this week (okay, my whole life–my dad lovingly used to call me Mouth) that I can’t think of a more horrible chapter to try to analyze and unravel. The tongue is hard to tame. I’m doing a sucky job. From my mouth is coming both praise to my Father and …