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Extraordinary empowering by God:

--- If you want to be extraordinarily empowered by God as you do ministry, then see the information on how to acquire that empowering from God, which is contained within the document "Session 10 - Mandates Relating To 'Godliness' And 'Empowering' ", on the web page "Home Page - Ministry".
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Request for prayer

--- Please pray that the Gospel presentation document "How To Get To Heaven" in various languages on this website would be readily accessed, effectively understood, and instrumentally used by the Lord to bring countless numbers of people around the world to salvation through faith in Jesus Christ.
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An important coming reality:


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Upon the start of the Great Tribulation, believers can lose their salvation.  For details, see the document "End Times Speculations", which is located at the top of the 'Doctrines' web-page.
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? Did you know that:
- - God has assigned all true believers to be functioning as "priests", doing ministry work in a church or ministry.
(For more information, see the document "1 Peter 2:5 - Assigned To Be Ministering In A Priestly Fraternity" in the ' 1 Peter' Sermon or Lesson Outlines web-page.)


 Outlines - for Sermons or Lessons 
 - James 

Outlines that are designed to be used as expository preaching sermons or as Bible study teaching lessons - for free download for the entire Book of James in the New Testament, biblical, editable (in .doc), printable, can be easily customized or projected, available in 4 file formats (.htm, .rtf, .doc, .pdf), NIV-based

To download a document, place your cursor over the format type (.htm, .rtf, .doc, or .pdf) for the document you want, then right mouse click to cause a pop-up menu to appear, then in that menu select "Save Target As..." to copy the document file onto your computer in a directory you designate.

Book Of James (complete):

James 1:1
The Testimony Of James About His Half-brother Jesus
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James 1:2-4
God’s Perspective For Our Facing Trials Of Many Kinds
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James 1:5-8
Acquiring Wisdom From God
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James 1:9-11
Spiritual Dynamics Of Being Wealthy
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James 1:12
Persevering Under Trial
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James 1:13
God’s Role In Our Exposure To Temptations
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James 1:14-15
Placing The Blame Where The Blame Belongs
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James 1:16-17
Establishing An Accurate Regard For What God Gives
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James 1:18
God’s Best “Good And Perfect Gifts”
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James 1:19-20
Your Anger Is Counterproductive To God’s Purposes
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James 1:21
Clean Out The Sinfulness, Embrace God’s Righteousness
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James 1:22-24
Treating God’s Word As If It Were Useless
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James 1:25
Studying, Internalizing, And Applying God’s Word Brings Blessings
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James 1:26-27 - Expository Essay
(a study resource document):
The Nature Of True Religion
by Tina A. Coddington
An examination of the aspects of the nature of true religion, based on James 1:26-27
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James 1:26
Sinful Speech Equals Religion Worthless To God
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James 1:27
God Accepts Your Practice Of Religion When It Is Pure
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James 2:1-3
Favoritism - Contrary To Proper Religious Practice
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James 2:4
The Sins Of Favoritism-Discriminating-Judging
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James 2:5-7
Our Favoritism Is All Backwards
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James 2:8-11
God Has A Big Problem With Our Showing Of Favoritism
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James 2:12-13
A Warning To Be Merciful
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James 2:14-17
Is Your Faith Dead Or Alive?
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James 2:18-19
True Faith Is Evidenced By Good Deeds
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James 2:20-24
Faith And Deeds - Working Together
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James 2:25-26
Sufficiently Informed, Exhorted, And Warned
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James 3:1-2
Teachers - Required Excellence In Modeling The Word
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James 3:3-5a
Your Tongue Steers The Direction Of Your Life
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James 3:5b-8
Our Tongue - Great Inclination For Comprehensive Evil
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James 3:9-12
Unacceptable Duality Of The Tongue
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James 3:13-16
Godly Wisdom Has Humility And
Contentment
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James 3:17-18
Other Characteristics Of Genuine Godly Wisdom
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James 4:1-3
Motivations and Compulsions Of Sinful Sensual Desires
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James 4:4
Our Worldliness Is Hostility Towards God
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James 4:5-6
Your Worldliness Provokes God
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James 4:7
Do A Reversal
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James 4:8
Cleanse Your Actions And Thinking
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James 4:9-10
Grieve Your Significant Sinfulness
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James 4:11-12
Corrupt Use Of The Law
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James 4:13-16
Proper Regard Of Your Own Abilities
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James 4:17
Sin Of Omission
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James 5:1-3b
Comprehensive Accountability With Adverse Consequences Awaits The Wealthy
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James 5:3c
Wealth Is To Be Shared, Not Hoarded
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James 5:4-6
Adverse Accountability For The Sinful Use Of Wealth
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James 5:7-9
Keep In Mind The Coming Judgment
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James 5:10-12
Patient Endurance, Careful Words
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James 5:13-16
Use God's Way To Successfully Pass Through Suffering
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James 5:17-20
The Lord's Response To The Actions Of The Righteous Believer
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These are all of the sermons for the entire Book of James herein above.


For a List Of Abbreviations used within these outlines, click here 
(to access the list on the "Abbreviations & Copyrights" page).

 

Sección de recursos en español.
(Resources section in Spanish.)
Seção do recursos em português.
(Resources section in Portuguese.)

"How To Get To Heaven" - in:

(These documents can be printed to give the gospel to people who speak one of these languages.)
Afrikaans , Albanian , Amharic , Arabic , Armenian , Assamese , Aymara , Azerbaijani , Bambara , Basque , Belarusian , Bengali , Bhojpuri , Bosnian , Bulgarian , Catalan , Cebuano , Chichewa , Chinese , Croatian , Czech , Danish , Dogri , Dutch , English-adults , English-youths , English-HB , Estonian , Ewe , Finnish , French , Frisian-Western , Galician , Georgian , German , Greek , Guarani , Gujarati , Haitian-Creole , Hausa , Hebrew , Hindi , Hmong , Hungarian , Icelandic , Igbo , ilocano , Indonesian , Italian , Japanese , Javanese , Kannada , Kazakh , Khmer , Kinyarwanda , Konkani , Korean , Krio , Kurdish-Kurmanji , Kurdish-Sorani , Kyrgyz , Lao , Latvian , Lingala , Lithuanian , Luganda , Luxembourgish , Maithili , Malagasy , Malay , Malayalam , Maltese , Marathi , Mizo , Mongolian , Myanmar-Burmese , Nepali , Norwegian , Odia-Oriya , Oromo , Pashto , Persian , Polish , Portuguese , Punjabi , Quechua , Romanian , Russian , Samoan , Sepedi , Serbian , Sesotho , Shona , Sindhi , Sinhala , Slovak , Slovenian , Somali , Spanish , Sundanese , Swahili , Swedish , Tagalog , Tajik , Tamil , Tatar , Telugu , Thai , Tigrinya , Tsonga , Turkish , Turkmen , Twi , Ukrainian , Urdu , Uyghur , UzbekVietnamese , Welsh , Xhosa , Yoruba , Zulu 

                    What's New:

_________ September, 2024 ________

- - A new 'sermon or lesson' series, entitled " Pursue Wisdom ", is now being added, and is located near the middle of the "Topical" web-page.

___________ August, 2024 __________

- - A new ' Ministry Tips ' document, entitled "Precautions For New Workers And Leaders In Ministry", has been added to the "Home Page - Ministry" web-page.

_________ September, 2023 _________

- - A new counseling document, entitled "Recovering From Ministerial Abuse, Assault, Murder", has been added to the "Counseling" web-page.

__________ August, 2023 __________

- - A new session document, entitled "Session 00 - Overview", has been added to the "Biblical Counseling Training Series for Lay Counselors", which is located near the top of the "Counseling" web-page.

___________ June, 2023 ___________

- - The new "Elder Training Series" is located near the top of the "Home Page - Ministry" web-page and contains important and useful training for anyone who leads a ministry.


- - Persons newly distinctly moving towards full-time ministry:
- - Because it happens so rarely, it is quite thrilling and exhilarating to see when a person or married couple pops-up and starts distinctly moving in the direction towards possibly one day going into full-time ministry. 
- - When this movement first starts to become evident, it would be a good idea and important at that time to have a suitable leader in the church assigned to them to personally coach, train, equip, monitor, assist, and advise them, checking-in or meeting with them preferably once at least every 3 weeks. 
- - At each of these check-in's, it is furthermore very important to ask them if they are having or are experiencing any difficulties, or problems, or issues, or hindering challenges in their ministry functioning and/or their academic ministry schooling. 
- - Otherwise, they are not likely to bring up or mention struggles that they are having if they are not directly asked if they are having any.
- - Even though each of these new potentially-full-time ministry workers obviously may have already demonstrated God-given abilities to do ministry well, nevertheless it would be wise to ensure at this early stage that they get off to a good start and not become derailed or crash-and-burn while they are learning how to do and lead a ministry in a church environment.
- - Furthermore, be aware that if God wants and is moving those particular persons in your church to indeed one day be in full-time ministry, then God has obligated your church to
now help them in every way that your church and its members can.  God has placed and raised up those persons in your church, which therefore makes it your church's responsibility and duty to help them.
- - Consequently and logically, such help should include providing: needed financial support; housing support, perhaps in the parsonage (if applicable); support for tuition and other related expenses for ministry training by a sound-doctrined Bible college or seminary; exposure to how church leadership functions, by observing your leadership meetings; hands-on experience in doing and leading a ministry; intentional mentoring from seasoned excellent top leaders in your church; and etcetera.
- - To ignore or skimp in supplying these forms of needed support that your church can provide to your persons who are moving towards full-time ministry is a gross failure to fulfill this duty that God has assigned to your church.

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- - Running out of time:
We (servants of God) are running out of time to get everything done - all of our ministry work, because April 3, 2034 is coming quickly.
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" spoken of through the prophet Isaiah [40:4] : " A voice of one calling in the desert, `Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.' ""  (Matthew 3:3)
- - A relating end times event to currently watch for: If the construction of the Temple in Jerusalem indeed will start in the middle of the year 2034, therefore it seems logical and necessary that Jehovah God would need to utterly flatten in an earthquake the Dome Of The Rock mosque years before 2034, which of course could occur any day now until then.
(written in September, 2023)

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- - Details about 'Permission To Translate These Documents Into Your Language' can be found in the 'Copyrights' section on the "Abbreviations, Copyrights, Resources" web page.

Translating Help Needed
- - I am wanting to partner with a person (or group) in the ministry work of translating some of my ministry documents from English into Spanish, to be placed in the Spanish
section of my website. 
- - Similarly, I am wanting a person (or group) to translate my ministry website documents from English into Portuguese, to be placed in the Portuguese section of my website. 
- - Do you know of anyone (or group) who may be interested in doing this kind of ministry work that has proven to reach countless numbers of people in various places in the world?
- - Please pray that more persons and groups would be raised up to translate the documents on my ministry website into their native foreign language and post them on their website for free download.

 

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