Your Defining Moment. We all have them - opportunities when the course of life is altered. podcast: https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/1feecab4/ode-to-a-patriarch-and-a-prostitute-james-no10 Enter the patriarch and the prostitute, and their defining moments... James writes of their great faith in God that led both to make big, obedient choices. "Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? You see that faith was act
podcast: https://www.pastorwoman.net/podcast/episode/2bf12d6a/this-little-word-undoes-me-james-no9 The other day I contrasted faithand'works' with faithandgrace. Was James saying one thing, and Paul, (arguably the best teacher after Jesus Christ) saying another? No, they were not. But frankly, just the mention of grace stopped me in my tracks. For by grace you have been saved. It is not of your own doing, but it is the gift of God.1 The truth is: Grace makes no sense--it