James Devotionals

One for each chapter. Want to test what you read? Take the James quizzes.

1. James 1: The Giver Who Never Changes

   James opens with something hard to hear. When trials come, he says, count them as joy, because the testing of faith produces endurance, and endurance makes a believer mature and…

2. James 2: Faith That Reaches the Poor

   James pictures two visitors arriving at a church meeting, one in fine clothes and a gold ring, the other in shabby clothes. The rich man gets the best seat, and the poor man is…

3. James 3: Wisdom for an Untamed Tongue

   James does not flatter our words. A tiny bit steers a horse and a small rudder turns a ship, and the tongue, small as it is, can set a whole life on fire like a spark in a forest…

4. James 4: Grace Greater Than Our Quarrels

   James traces our fights back to their source. Conflicts come from desires at war inside us. We want what we do not have, so we quarrel, and we lack things because we do not ask…

5. James 5: Waiting on a Compassionate Lord

   James 5 begins with a hard word to the rich who have hoarded wealth and held back the wages of the workers who harvested their fields. Those unpaid wages cry out, and the cries of…