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well howdy we are in a great New Testament book of the Bible called James. If you've got a Bible, go to James chapter 2.

And I like to say he's the blue collar scholar of the new

testament we tend to think of Bible teachers spiritual leaders those who are more

professorial or writers and authors as coming from big cities and academic

institutions and and massive pedigrees.

That's not James Story.

He grew up in a small rural town.

His parents were married as teenagers.

They were peasants.

He never made it to a big city.

He never went to a great university.

But Mary and Joseph were his mom and dad and Jesus Christ was his big brother.

And so he did learn a few things along the way.

And when he goes to write this book it's after his brother

Jesus died rose return to heaven and what he's looking at is how faith works how do you

not just have arguments about God but how do you live a life with God and what he's talking about is how to take the faith in his brother Jesus and put it to work in the practical day-to-day stuff of your life.

Thank you for letting me help you learn God's word,

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