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Bible Passage:  James 5 Will You Wait? These verses caught my eye today… “Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it until it receives the early and latter rain. 8 You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the [...]

Do you know this feeling… Of an uneasiness in your heart, Like a prick or a squeeze Or your heart beat off the chart?   The heart is a mysterious thing, And we have to learn to control it on our part. It is like taming our tongue except, We tame the thoughts of our heart. [...]

Bible Passage:  James 3 Today’s chapter gives one of the most difficult lessons that I must learn … and is indeed one that I know a lot of us are struggling with as well… this is the question of proper speech.   Verbal attacks, like favourtism (James talked about it in the last chapter), are [...]

Bible Passage: James 2 As biblereader had described yesterday, the book of James is a book with many practical Christian teachings. Some may call it a book of action. And today’s chapter is certainly one such chapter. Faith Without Works Is Dead   Thus also faith by itself, if it does mot have works, is [...]

Bible Passage:  James 1 The book of James has many practical Christian teachings. Whenever I read this book, I always feel the sense of my shortfall in faith and not being able to achieve the perfectness that Jesus expects us. However, despite seeing my shortfalls, the Word of God reminds me again that I need [...]

Bible Passage:  James 5 Our bible reading theme this year surrounds one very important question that all of us should self-check our understanding on – What does Christianity mean to you? In another words, what does your faith / belief mean to you? These recent 2 weeks, we have had encouraging and thought provoking sharing [...]

Bible Passage:  James 4 Consider yourself! Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members? (James 4:1) Today’s passage began with a question for us to examine ourselves. What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? What do you think [...]

Slow to speak… slow to anger Bible Passage:  James 3 The tongue is a small and deadly weapon. With the tongue, wars were fought and countless people murdered. Genocide, religious wars, terrorism, revolutions and global wars were fueled by the abuse of the mouth. Many people were deceived by the lies and hypocrisy of the [...]

Recently, I’ve been kind of addicted to PopCap’s Plants vs. Zombies; playing it on my PC as well as *ALL* my portable devices. There’s just something about those cute, bouncing, seed slugging plants and try-to-be-scary-but-not-scary-at all zombies with abysmal spelling abilities that’s wonderfully effective for a quick 5 minutes de-stress session or a longer challenge [...]

The epistle of James is one of my favorite among all the epistles in the New Testament. But that doesn’t mean I don’t like the rest of the other epistles. It is only that this epistle left a very deep impression in me when I first read it at the age of 15, because I [...]