Daily Directional

James calls us to draw near to God and he will draw near to us, then to purify ourselves. Purity is a subject we rarely talk about outside of abstaining from sexual relations before marriage. What el…

James points out that quarrels and fights are a part of looking like and acting like the world. When we choose the world's ways over God's, we choose to become God's enemies. Ick. The flipside is to …

Today Pastor Bethany looks at James 4:1-3 where James warns against the passions at war within us and the way our sense of lack causes us to fight out of envy. There is absolutely another way, a bett…

We continue our conversation for one more day. John Horsley is with Pastor Bethany considering James 4:1-10 and what it teaches about humility, submission, and our ability to resist the devil. John s…

John Horsley joins Pastor Bethany again to talk about James 4:1-10. Focus lands upon the concept of jealousy: How is God jealous? How is jealousy different than covetousness?

A slightly different episode for today. Pastor Bethany is joined by friend and co-laborer in ministry, John Horsley. We hope you enjoy the conversation. We're diving in to our thoughts and connection…

Today Pastor Bethany simply prays over us all, holding us up to the light and life of Christ. 

A quick story about an encounter with God in prayer that motivated me to simply share the beauty and solidness of Psalm 27. May you all find moments of joy and peace with Jesus today.

There is a sense of hopelessness sometimes that when living with and around other people it is impossible to maintain peace. James says living peaceably with others is possible, but it does require e…

Unfortunately, our tongues are wild, unable to be tamed outside of the power of the Holy Spirit. We all have experience with saying something that cuts, bites, or poisons another. We all have experie…

We're in James 3:1-13 once again. This time, considering what it looks like to choose words of life for others. What does it look like to lean into the Lord and ask what He says about others? Can we …

We're still camped out in James 3, considering the difficulty of taming our tongues. Today we're talking about the possibility that we don't actually have a word/mouth problem, but perhaps a mind/hea…

Today we have a guest speaker, John Horsley, joining us to explain the metaphor James uses about keeping our whole bodies in check with a bridle. He says, "If we put bits into the mouths of horses to…

We're jumping into the first day of several spent in James 3:1-12. Our tongues need taming! Today Pastor Bethany talks about Solomon as The Teacher, Jesus as our new Teacher, and the Holy Spirit as o…

I did a little more digging with the Lord into the faith and legacy of Rahab. Today we're detouring just a little bit from James 2, into the story of Ruth and her kinsman-redeemer, Boaz. They, too, s…

Today we're looking at the second example James gives from the Old Testament of people putting faith into action: Rahab. Rahab heard of God, decided she knew he was the God of heaven and earth, and c…

We are looking at James 2:18-24 and the story of Abraham sacrificing his son on Mount Moriah. Our considerations turn to what it takes to have mature faith, how to live love out loud.

Today we're looking at James 2:14-17. James pushes believers to take their faith from simply dwelling in our minds to prompting the action of our hands.

Today we're look at one single verse. James 2:13--Mercy triumphs over judgement. What would it look like for us to take this to heart and live with an outpouring of mercy toward ourselves and others?

James tells us that "Mercy triumphs over judgement." Today we look together at James 2:1-13. The Lord asks us to remove the distinctions among us and honor one another as the beautiful, God-created h…