Hello, this is Ashley Chase welcoming you to the Mark Driscoll Podcast.

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Alrighty, we are in a great book of the Bible called James.

If you've got a Bible, go to the book of James and it's a book written by Jesus'

kid brother.

If you could just even fathom, sharing a bunk bed, growing up, attending home school with

Jesus, I mean, you know, I'm never going to be the valedictorian of my school.

Jesus is my big brother.

We're home school together.

We like to call James the blue collar scholar of the New Testament.

He's a guy who grew up in a small town, rural, blue collar family, swinging a hammer, growing

up.

He is big brother Jesus, starts preaching.

Ultimately he's there to see his brother die and then rise and then return to heaven.

James follows in his legacy and goes into ministry and becomes a pastor and writes a book

of the Bible bearing his name.

That's where we get the book of James.

So the big theme of James is that faith works.

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