Today, we start a journey through one of the most misunderstood--but most marvelous and meaningful--books in the New Testament, the Epistle of James. James is called a general Epistle, which means it is not written to a specific church community, but rather to the Christian Community at large. While it was designed to appeal to Christians in Jerusalem in 52 A.D., its message still speaks to us today with penetrating power and purpose. It offers wonderful words of wisdom for the Christian’s walk and witness.

This letter of James was written for the second stage of a Christian’s journey--the journey INWARD. The doctrine of justification by faith had already been established as the standard in the Christian community, and so James wants to take us a step further. He writes words of instructi…