Louise McEvoy, Sunday School Teacher, Bible Study Facilitator   James 5:19-20 (THE VOICE) 19 Brothers and sisters, if someone you know loses his way and rebels against God, pursue him in love and bring him back to the truth. 20 Know this: If you turn a sinner back from the error of his ways, then you will rescue him from the grips of death and cover the pain and consequences of untold sins. Reflection Society has been fascinated with criminal minds and behavior for decades. Billy the Kid. Al Capone. Hannibal Lecter. Raymond Reddington. Darth Vader. The fascination, though, [...]

Nancy Walker, Altar Guild, Prayer Team, Member of the Goodwill Class  James 5:13-18  If any of you are suffering, they should pray.  If any of you are happy, they should sing.  If any of you are sick, they should call for the elders of the church, and the elders should pray over them anointing them with oil in the name of the Lord.  Prayer that comes from faith will heal the sick, for the Lord will restore them to health.  And if they have sinned, they will be forgiven.  For this reason, confess your sins to each other and [...]

Amy Kelley James 5:7-12 (CEB) 7 Therefore, brothers and sisters, you must be patient as you wait for the coming of the Lord. Consider the farmer who waits patiently for the coming of rain in the fall and spring, looking forward to the precious fruit of the earth. 8 You also must wait patiently, strengthening your resolve, because the coming of the Lord is near. 9 Don’t complain about each other, brothers and sisters, so that you won’t be judged. Look! The judge is standing at the door! 10 Brothers and sisters, take the prophets who spoke in the [...]

Vicki Keiser, Church Council and Stephen’s Ministry James 5:1-6 Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. 2 Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. 4 Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. 5 You have [...]

Chrissie Prichard James 4:13-17 Pay attention, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such-and-such a town. We will stay there a year, buying and selling, and making a profit.” You don’t really know about tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for only a short while before it vanishes. Here’s what you ought to say: “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” But now you boast and brag, and all such boasting is evil. It is a sin when someone knows the right thing to do and [...]

Lavonne Baker, Sister in Christ   James 4:11-12 “Brothers do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against this brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgement on it. There is only one lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy.  But you – who are you to judge your neighbor?” NIV   “Don’t bad-mouth each other, friends. It’s God’s Word, his Message, his Royal Rule, that takes a beating in that kind of talk.  You’re supposed to [...]

Brittney Ford, Member since 2007 James 4:7-9  Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. Reflection: My mother-in-law used to always tell her boys growing up “to have a friend, you have to be a friend.” I love these words, and I find myself using them on my children, my students, and even the adults in my [...]

Charity Autry, Member since 2008, Sunday School Leader, Starting Point Leader, VBS Chair, sinner James 4:1-6 1 What causes fights and quarrels among you?  Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?  2You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight.  You do not have because you do not ask God. 3When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. 4You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with [...]