This is the Baymall podcast with Marty Solman. I'm his co-host, Brent Billings. Today we examine the book of James and its challenging contents.

Love it or hate it. This letter often provokes very strong reactions.

Yeah, Martin Luther thought this was actually even being the canon.

Woo! That is about a strong overreaction as you get it.

Of course, Martin Luther had a lot of strong reactions to a lot of things.

Like Jewish people. But hey, we never talk about that.

Fun little ditty. Fun little.

Maybe we'll get to that in church history. Session 5 stuff.

I don't know. I'm not very there, but fun little.

Untalked about fact, about Martin Luther. This is rampant anti-semitism, but I'd digress.

Actually, don't hold it against him. We're indebted to a lot of good things.

But that's for session 5. It's time for the book of James.

We come to the book of James. In a lot of ways, we've kind of done all the intro work to this book.

Particularly back with the book of Acts and Galatians.

And talking about the three parts of the law. Brent, can you remind us of what the three parts of the law was?

The ethical law, the cultic law, and the mixatma say Hatra.

Yeah, it's excellent. Alright, so we had those.

And that's really going to set the stage. But even before we dive into that,

let's just deal with the author. Let's do this one more time, because I get so many funny emails about this question.

The author of the book of James is a guy by name of James.

And James is in the book he calls himself the brother of Jesus, the brother of Jesus.

But the term there in the hebraic mind, brother does not just mean brother brother. Brother means,

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