Month: November 2024
Chip’s Brush on the Shoulder
A Year Ago, Today:
Sitting at the train station,
the woman behind me asks a friend
“How far is Christopher from here?”
Just as she said, “Christopher,”
her friend’s jacket brushed across my shoulder. …
my name is, “Christopher”!
Trials and Temptations
“Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life…”
A Daily Bible Study of THE BOOK OF JAMES
Friday, November 1, 2024
JAMES 1:2-8
Trials and Temptations
Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.
Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.
But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.
That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.
Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do.