Posts Tagged ‘Healing’
A Living Faith Evidenced in Prayer – Part 4 (James 5:13-18)
Click here to read part 1. Click here to read part 2. Click here to read part 3. In James 5:17–18, James illustrates the power of persistent prayer in the life of Elijah. Although we do not live in a miraculous age where God will work miracles through us directly, the principle of God’s working…
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Click here to read part 1. Click here to read part 2. Working through the difficult interpretive decisions of James 5:13–18 is important, but let’s not miss the main concern of the passage: the prayer of faith. Whose prayer and whose faith? Verse 14 is clear that it is the elders who are doing the…
Read MoreA Living Faith Evidenced in Prayer – Part 2 (James 5:13-18)
Click here to read part 1. In the previous post we began laying out two interpretations of James’ meaning in James 5:14–16 regarding prayer for sickness. In this post we’ll critique those interpretations. But first, why do most find it difficult to decide between interpretations 1 and 2? Lexically: the words can be taken as…
Read MoreA Living Faith Evidenced in Prayer – Part 1 (James 5:13-18)
The body of James’ letter expands on the theme of being a doer of the Word (James 1:22 sets up the body of the letter, which encompasses James 1:19–5:12). The book of James is bookended by addressing circumstances of suffering (James 1:2–18 and 5:13–18). A living faith is evidenced by being a doer of the…
Read MoreHow Could It Ever Be for My Good?
by Claudia Barba Originally published in the Jan/Feb 2012 edition of FrontLine. If you have been abused, you carry a heavy load. Lugging the past around is exhausting, but no matter what some say, you can’t simply drop it. In the daylight, names and pictures, places and faces remind you of what you’re desperately trying…
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