Epistle of James

Isidore E. Sharpe Professor John Walker NTS 301 30 September 2016 Final Exam The Epistle of James has impact my life spiritually. James influenced my walk with Christ. I am able to help other Christians on how to endure and trust God in the midst of adversity. James recognized that the church of today is facing some of the same issues that the early church faced. I learned that the church today is combated with pride, discrimination, greed, lust, hypocrisy, worldliness, and backbiting. James believed that "Faith without works is dead" (James 2:26), and that our mere profession of faith is not enough. We have to walk by faith and not by sight. I am with the teaching of James and his desires, Christians cannot only hear the truth, but also…

What will tomorrow hold? In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus said, “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own…

Matt Slick in an article on Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry indicates that many Catholics point to James 2:24 which says “You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone” to refute Luther’s understanding of the doctrine. Slick points out that what James is talking about is having dead faith instead of having a saving faith. He states that “mere intellectual acknowledgement of Christ is a dead faith that produces no regeneration and no change in a person 's life.…

Jude is known as the brother of James and the half brother of Jesus. It is said that Jude was written in 65 AD. Jude was writing to those who were teaching false; teaching in the Church and Jude warns those who turn away from Christ yet those who seek to know God are example of apostasy. The epistle of Jude was written to help the Christians to follow after the true and living God. Thus, not to be deceive by lies, to live a life of sin and still claim to be a follower of God is a sin. Jude…

The Romans Road The Romans Road is a method of sharing the gospel through bible verses from the book of Romans which logically lay out God’s plan of salvation for mankind. This simple yet effective evangelistic method clearly explains why mankind needs salvation, how God provides salvation through his son Jesus Christ, how unbelievers receive salvation, and what outcomes salvation has on the life of a believer. (Christy, 2012) Evangelists following this method begin with stating that all men…

The book of Philippians is written while Paul is in prison. While there, he writes his thanks and appreciation to the four Philippians: Timothy, Epaphroditus, Euodia, and Syntyche. He gives thanks to each of them and expresses his deep appreciation of their love for Christ and their sharings of support to Paul’s ministry. In Philippians 2:21 Paul speaks upon the ones who only look out for the interest of themselves, but not of Christ first. While on the other hand Timothy as Paul states, “But…

The majority of this year was spent on improving our writing for the first three targets, though the fourth is still relevant and important in crafting polished essay. As the year progressed, I began to see myself more easily spotting errors of syntax, spelling, and other cosmetic details. To demonstrate my ability to revise based on the feedback of others and my own opinions, I chose to revisit my Insider/Outsider Biography, paper 1.1. Coming back to this piece after several months, I…

Melissa Moody 10/07/2015 Introduction//Thesis The book of Romans teaches Christian the aspect of our life. To start off the book of Romans Paul has written a letter to a church in Rome. This letter is where Paul introduced the very foundation of Christian belief which is still with each Christian today. The book of Romans is very important because of the greatest aspects. These aspects help build our foundation into the Christian faith we have today. Without the book of Roman we would have never…

The first message I ever gave was here a couple of years ago, and it was also on Romans. And in that message, I explained what it meant when certain words are used to begin a passage. Romans 8:28 begins with the word “AND”. When a passage starts with the word “AND”, what it means is, that it’s a connection. It’s a connection between what he has been saying and what he's about to say. However, “AND” was not used here. Neither was the word “BUT”, which is intended to be used as a contrast to…

Romans one through eight covers a lot of ground related to what a Christian worldview is. Paul wrote this book for the Romans because their society was in a lot of corruption. The Romans began to take on false gods and worshipped them engaging in unnatural sexual immoralities. These passages that Paul wrote covers the basics of what salvation is, who can receive salvation, and what God expects from those who are saved. Although Paul wrote Romans as a message to the Romans it is a message for…