Category: The Epistle of James

  • The Epistle of James, Chapter Five, A Patient and Expectant Faith

    By H A Ironside The believer in Christ is a stranger and a pilgrim, passing on through a world arrayed in opposition against God. He sees confusion and strife on every hand, all the result of sin and rebellion against the only One who would have brought peace to this troubled…

  • The Epistle of James, Chapter Four, A Submissive Faith

    By H A Ironside Faith is hindered by strife and contention, by prayerlessness and by worldliness. Of these James treats in Chapter 4 and shows that submission to the will of God enables one to overcome all these tendencies and so to walk in faith, looking to God for His guidance…

  • The Epistle of James, Chapter Three, A Controlling and Energizing Faith

    By H A Ironside The faith of which James writes is a vital force that enables a man to live triumphantly, even to controlling that unruly member, the tongue, by means of which God is so often dishonored and our fellow-men injured. An unbridled tongue is at the bottom of much…

  • The Epistle of James, Chapter Two, A Manifested Faith

    By H A Ironside This chapter readily divides into two sections: first, verses 1 to 13, and second, verses 14 to 26. In both parts James stresses the importance of reality in one’s attitude toward God and His Word. Recognizing the fact that many of those, whom he addresses as belonging…

  • The Epistle of James, Chapter One, Victorious Faith

    By H A Ironside It is a grave mistake to infer, as some have done, that this Epistle emphasizes works rather than faith. It stresses the importance of faith throughout, but shows that real faith is never separated from a life of piety. In verse 1 we have the salutation. If…

  • The Epistle of James, Introduction

    By H A Ironside It was F. W. Grant, the able and conscientious Bible expositor whose works have been of inestimable value to unnumbered thousands of God’s beloved children, who drew attention, some years before his home-call in 1902, to the fact that in the New Testament we have an Epistle…