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Book of James

A study through the book of the Bible, James.

To Save A Life

August 27, 2017 • Cody Balch

SERMON IN A SENTENCE: "Please don’t have an urgency to help save people from physical death, yet be complacent about the eternal salvation that they need through Jesus."

From Shattered To Healed

August 20, 2017 • Cody Balch

SERMON IN A SENTENCE: "Fighting against sin all alone is as deadly as trying to perform your own open heart surgery."

Fake News

August 13, 2017 • Cody Balch

SERMON IN A SENTENCE: "If people can’t trust your words, then they will never trust your message."

Worth the Wait

August 6, 2017 • Cody Balch

SERMON IN A SENTENCE: "Knowing how our story ends allows us to be patient through the trials of life."

Spoiled Rotten

July 30, 2017 • Cody Balch

SERMON IN A SENTENCE: "Be careful that your assets don’t actually become liabilities."

Change of Plans

July 23, 2017 • Cody Balch

SERMON IN A SENTENCE: "If tomorrow isn't promised, then today really matters."

Wrong Judge

July 9, 2017 • Cody Balch

SERMON IN A SENTENCE: "Let's leave the judging to the all-knowing Judge, and instead focus on living thankful lives to the true Judge for not giving us what we truly deserve."

The Battle Within

July 2, 2017 • Cody Balch

SERMON IN A SENTENCE: "To win the battle within yourself, you must first surrender yourself to a life of selflessness."

Get Over The Sun

June 25, 2017 • Cody Balch

SERMON IN A SENTENCE: "God desires to give us transcendent wisdom that is beyond our years."

Tongues of Fire

June 18, 2017 • Cody Balch

SERMON IN A SENTENCE: "What you say matters, and can be used in both amazingly great ways, as well as incredibly destructive ways."

The Walking Dead

June 4, 2017 • Cody Balch

SERMON IN A SENTENCE: "Simply believing in something and actually allowing your life to be changed by that belief are two very different things."

Playing Favorites

May 21, 2017 • Cody Balch

James 2:1-13 "2 My brothers and sisters, believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ must not show favoritism. 2 Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in filthy old clothes also comes in. 3 If you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say, “Here’s a good seat for you,” but say to the poor man, “You stand there” or “Sit on the floor by my feet,” 4 have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? 5 Listen, my dear brothers and sisters: Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those who love him? 6 But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who are exploiting you? Are they not the ones who are dragging you into court? 7 Are they not the ones who are blaspheming the noble name of him to whom you belong? 8 If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing right. 9 But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers. 10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. 11 For he who said, “You shall not commit adultery,” also said, “You shall not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker. 12 Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom, 13 because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment."

Authentic

May 14, 2017 • Cody Balch

James 1:26-27 "26 Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless. 27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." Sermon In A Sentence: "Authentically following Jesus should not imply perfection, but instead an honest dependency and gratitude for the grace of Jesus."

Stop & Go

May 7, 2017 • Cody Balch

James 1:19-21 - "19 My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, 20 because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. 21 Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you."

Dream Big

April 30, 2017 • Cody Balch

James 1:22-25 "22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. 23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror 24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. 25 But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do."

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