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Welcome back to the Coffee and Bible Time podcast. This is Ellen, your host. Today we are going

to be talking about how God uses pain in our lives. That's something

that can come with a lot of big emotions and bad memories. But as believers, it's not a question

we need to be afraid of or avoid.

Today, Taylor is joining us for a chat about James, chapter 1, verses 2 through 4, which is a passage that challenges us to build endurance and count it all joy even in the most painful parts of life. Welcome, Taylor. Thank you so much for

having me. I've just really looked forward to this. I love every time that I'm able to do a podcast

with you and just talk, maybe ramble a little bit, and especially on today's topic. I'm very excited because we've

been studying it a lot in our online community and every week we've been meeting in a small

group talking going in depth, actually attempting to memorize James I, which is not as hard as you'd think if you go really slow. I'm

behind. I'm not going to lie, but I still love doing it. Well, I'm thrilled to have you with us.

And why don't we start out today by reading the passage aloud?

So, Taylor, I'm going to be using the ESV translation.

What about you?

I'm going to use the CSB Christian Standard Bible translation.

And actually a Bible that I've been really using a lot more lately is the Spurgeon

study Bible. We'll have it linked in the show notes if anybody's curious, but it has notes

written throughout the Bible from Spurgeon, I think from his sermons. And there's a lot of

interesting insight in there. I would not say though that it's a

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