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When the word, not the world, becomes the majority of your week, your life will start to change.

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Hey, hope you having a great day. Thanks for joining us on the Daily Drive podcast. My name is Mike

Bro, and it is an absolute blast. Hang with you for a few minutes every day as we try to get to know God a little better.

And man, that is a worthy pursuit.

And to do that, we've been walking through the Book of James together, and we are headed in the chapter 4 today.

And no matter where you're at, your spiritual journey, one of the things I think everybody can appreciate about the book of James,

and the whole Bible, for that matter, is that it's just so shockingly real. Like every area it touches on,

including relational conflict. The Bible doesn't try to sugarcoat, sanitize, or skate the reality.

The relationships can be super complicated. It's all right here in God's world. I'm talking

the good, the bad, and the ugly. It's all right here in God's world. I'm talking the good,

the bad, and the ugly. There's the sibling rivalry between Kane and Abel that eventually

culminates in history's first murder and throws a family in a crisis mode. There's Joseph's brothers

who beat him up and throw him in the pit and sell him into slavery and then they lie about it and try to

cover it up for 13 years.

There's the ego-driven popularity contest between King Saul and this up-and-coming military hero, David,

as Saul struggles with his own insecurities and increasingly dark heart.

There's the case of serial adultery by a woman named Gomer and the unrelenting love by her husband,

Josea. There's the deep-seated resentment carried by Martha, who was busting her tail trying to

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