Today on Real Life Radio. Are you talking about being a Christian or are you talking about being

a pretender? What's the deal? You can't be a pretend Christian. You can say you're a Christian,

but in fact your life says you're a pretender. This is real life. Welcome to Real Life Radio with Pastor Jack Hibbs.

I'm David Jay thanking you for joining us today as we listen, learn, and are challenged by God's

Word, the Bible.

You know, the Apostle Peter in his letters to the church urged his fellow Christians to keep

on learning and growing in the faith, in spite of their suffering and pain.

Unlike today, however, resources were scarce. Still, they persevered, and Christ's followers were growing in both strength and numbers.

Now, there's no limit of ways to access quality materials on Christian living, including

Pastor Jack's website.

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On today's edition of real life radio, Pastor Jack continues his series now called The Book of James

with a message titled Receiving the Word of Truth.

Now, before it became one of the books of the New Testament, James was a letter that was sent to the Jews who chose to follow Christ.

And as new believers, James asks them to examine themselves as to whether or not they're true Christians.

You see, Jesus warns us of spectator Christianity.

We can say we're believers in God and that we follow Christ, but until we take our belief, our faith,

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