Thy Strong Word From Kfuo Radio

James opens with a greeting that sounds like a contradiction: count it all joy when you meet trials of various kinds. The testing of your faith produces steadfastness, and steadfastness finishes its work so that you may be complete, lacking in nothing. If you lack wisdom, ask God, who gives generously. But ask in faith, because the doubter is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.  The Rev. Aaron Spratt, pastor of Faith Lutheran Church in Juneau, AK, joins the Rev. Dr. Phil Booe to study James 1:1–8.  To learn more about Faith Lutheran, visit faithlutheranjuneau.org. Luther called it an “epistle of straw,” but then preached from it for the rest of his life as the Word of God. In this series, host Pastor Phil Booe and guest pastors walk verse by verse through the Letter of James, written by the brother of our Lord, the leading pastor of the Jerusalem church, and a man who thought Jesus had lost His mind until the resurrection proved otherwise. James writes to scattered Christians who are suffe