Well, good morning, church.

I don't see you reaching for a Bible, so go ahead, grab a Bible.

And if you don't have one, there's one sitting right in front of you in a chair back in front of you.

If you don't own a Bible or if the only Bible you own is your grandmas and it was out of

Ye Old English, take that one.

It's our gift to you.

And if you take it, I'll tell you where we're going to be.

We're going to be on page 11115.

So it can be real easy.

So as you're turning there, we are in week 13 of our study of James.

And the big idea in James is when James says faith without works is dead. And what he

means is just a genuine faith plays itself out in our lives. Faith works in our lives. It plays out.

It is actually practically into our day-to-day life and so as we've gone through the book of

james we've talked about trials and temptations we've talked about tests we've talked about wisdom

and discernment we talked about our words the power of our tongue fights quarrels werels. We talked about partiality, future planning. We talked about

that last week. Now, listen, we are almost to the end. Like next week is the end. We're so

close to the end and we've made it so far without talking about the topic that I know you have been dying to talk

about. Money. So let's do it today. It's where James goes. So we're going to talk. We're talking

about money. You made it so close. So close. I remember when I was just starting seminary and everybody, the class was kind of all

knew. Nobody really knew each other. And so we were sitting around one day a group of us and

people were talking about where they had come from, what they had done and all the sort of

thing. And so they were talking about where they had gone to college. And it was like this Christian

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