Calvary Chapel Cardunal - Sermon Audio

The workings of God’s providence are indeed awesome, and this ought to be a great source of encouragement to us in the difficult circumstances of life. “He does as he pleases with the powers of heaven and the peoples of the earth.

It is a story where we see God at work. The hand of God is in every scene ruling and overruling the decisions that people make. And in the end, God builds a hero, saves a family, and creates a nation that will in turn be a blessing to the whole world.

Prayer is certainly a high and holy privilege. To think that, as God’s children, we can come freely and boldly to His throne and share with Him our needs! Seven times in this section James mentioned prayer. The mature Christian is prayerful in the...

As you review this section, you can see its practicality of it. James wanted to encourage us to be patient in times of suffering.

If money talks,” said a popular comedian, “all it ever says to me is goodbye!” But money was not saying “good-bye” to the men James addressed in this section of his letter. These men were rich, and their riches were sinful. They were using their...

Dr. A.W. Tozer used to remind us that the invisible world described in the Bible was the only “real world.”

Understand this. God does not play hide and seek. He wants to reveal Himself to you. It might come as a surprise to you that God wants to lead you even more than you want to be led. God is concerned about revealing His will to us today. We need to...

Someone has suggested that there are three questions we should answer before indulging in criticism of others—What good does it do your brother? What good does it do yourself? What glory for God is in it?

James reminds his readers that the attitudes of lust and coveting will never be satisfied. Even after obtaining you still want more. This leads to war and fights among you.

Knowledge enables us to take things apart, but wisdom enables us to put things together and relate God’s truth to daily life.

What we say and what we don’t say are both important. Proper speech is not only saying the right words at the right time, it is also controlling our desire to say what we shouldn’t.

Today there is a lot of confusion in the Christian community concerning faith and works. That confusion is addressed here in our text.

James wanted to help us practice God’s Word, so he gave us a simple test. He sent two visitors to a church service, a rich man and a poor man; and he watched to see how they were treated.

It is not enough to hear the Word; we must do it. Many people have the mistaken idea that hearing a good sermon or Bible study is what makes them grow and get God’s blessing. It is not the hearing but the doing that brings the blessing. Too many...

Trials may be tests sent by God, or they may be temptations sent by Satan and encouraged by our own fallen nature. It is this second aspect of trials—temptations on the inside—that James dealt with in this section.

One of the best tests of Christian maturity is tribulation. When God’s people go through personal trials, they discover what kind of faith they really possess. Trials not only reveal our faith; they also develop our faith and Christian character.

What kind of a man was James? He must have been a deeply spiritual man to gain the leadership of the Jerusalem church in so short a time.

The Spirit delivers man from a terrible spirit—“the spirit of bondage.” Note what the bondage is: it is fear.

Those who fear the Lord need fear nothing else, for this is the fear that drives out all fear. When we fear the Lord, He provides all that we need when we need it.

This reverence and awe are exactly what the fear of God means for Christians. This is the motivating factor for us to surrender to the Creator of the Universe.