Distinctions
James 2: 1-10 + 14 – 17
September 5, 2021
Shoal Creek Camp
Meetings
Workday
CASA
Children’s Moment
Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”.
Scripture Reading
17 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. 18 He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.
Listening and Doing
19 My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, 20 because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. 21 Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.
22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. 23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror 24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. 25 But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.
26 Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless. 27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
Prayer List
Bernadine Reed, hospitalized last week for breathing issues
Kay Lowder, for cancer and treatment
the Lowder family
the Hoing family
Chester “Bud” Parsons, a family member of Sue Travis Drewry
Billy Duncan, for Covid-19 but improving, a family of Elaine Best
Patsy Miller
Tom Miller, for Covid-19, son-in-law of Jewell White
Mabel Serpa
Joye Cooper
John Deichmann, for pancreatic cancer
Hal & Harriet Lee
David & Jackie Rayburn