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All righty 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 could just even fathom, sharing a bunk bed growing up,

attending homeschool 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, but then as his 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 and the question is as you're living your life

very practically how does faith integrate itself to the decisions you make the

days you live the deeds you decide so today we're looking in James chapter 4 how does faith work in life planning and so let me just start with this big idea

We're always trying to figure out what comes next so we can get ready for and plan for.

This starts when you're a kid.

We've got five kids.

When your kids born, you're holding your kids,

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