Showing posts with label James. Show all posts
Showing posts with label James. Show all posts

Friday, November 2, 2012

A Warning to My Readers


A poem from Wendell Berry:

Do not think me gentle
because I speak in praise
of gentleness, or elegant
because I honor the grace
that keeps this world.
I am a man as crude as any,
gross of speech, intolerant,
stubborn, angry, full
of fits and furies. That I
may have spoken well
at times, is not natrual.
A wonder is what it is.



"Every good and perfect gift is from above" James 1:17

A sobering reminder that everything and anything good in us is the result of God's grace. 

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Scripture is not a Self-Help Manual

Some good words from Tullian on the book of James.

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