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Welcome to the gospel coalition podcast, equipping the next generation of believers, pastors, and church leaders to shape life and ministry around the gospel.

On today's episode, you'll hear a message from Nancy Guthrie on why James calls himself a servant.

This message was given at TGC's 2021 Women's Conference.

You know, sometimes I think that we read parts of the Bible without really thinking about the human person that's actually behind those words,

that person who felt the burden to do this writing and made the arguments and organized the words.

So we're going to just spend this session looking at the person of James who wrote the book that we're going to be studying here.

And in the truth is, in the book of James itself, he doesn't tell us very much about himself beyond introducing himself in the first verse.

So we're going to fill out some of who James is by what we read in the gospels, what we read in the book of Acts,

and then in the historical writings of Eusebius and Josephus.

And these sources are going to help us think about together about the home that James grew up in that shaped his relationship with his brother or half brother.

He's more accurate Jesus. And then the change that took place when the resurrected Jesus appeared to him.

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