First Naples Podcast

James teaches us about the delusion of living like we are God and the delight of submitting our lives to God.

James wants us to understand the cause and core of our conflict with others so that we can find the cure we need in the grace of God.

James tells us what Godly wisdom is, why we need it, and how to get it.

Real faith in Jesus should change how we speak to and about other people. James teaches us that what we say is powerful, it points to the condition of our hearts and it pushes us to our need for Jesus to be healed.

James teaches us that there is a difference between fake faith and real faith. James teaches us that fake faith is dead and demonic, and that real faith is dynamic.

How are we going to reach our community for Jesus if we mistreat people at church?James is teaching us that the proof that we have been transformed by the Gospel is seen in how we treat other people, especially people who are unlike us and people that we do not like.

Spiritual blessings and lasting freedom come to those who receive and obey the truth of God’s Word.

We can trust God in our temptations because He is not the cause of them, but is the only cure for overcoming them.

When trials come, we can joyfully trust God to give us what we need because He is good and is using them to make us more like Jesus.

Because He is the same yesterday, today, and forever more, we have no reason to doubt His divinity, trust in our fallen identity, or fear our eternity.

The message of Christmas is that Jesus became a human to save humanity by defeating the devil and delivering us from the fear of death.

Ultimately, Christmas means that God keeps His promises.In Hebrews 8, we see that there were old promises we could not keep, and there are new promises that we cannot beat found in Jesus.

Hebrews 4 teaches us that we can have confidence to get mercy and help despite our sinfulness because we have a great High Priest, who is God, to advocate for us, and Man, to sympathize with us.

Hebrews 2 teaches us that we do not need to fear because our sovereign King entered our broken world to fix what we have broken.

Hebrews begins by telling us that Jesus is the exact, exalted, and exclusive Word of God and that no other voice should be louder in our lives than His.