19 My dearly loved brothers, understand this: Everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger, 20 for man’s anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness. James begins this verse with a reminder that you are loved as he addresses Christians. He then uses verbiage to have us stop and pay attention to what …
18 By His own choice, He gave us a new birth by the message of truth so that we would be the firstfruits of His creatures. By His own choice is a reminder that God could have done things very differently. We are studying this verse on the day after Easter, where we celebrated Jesus’s resurrection. …
Resurrection Morning 28 After the Sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to view the tomb. 2 Suddenly there was a violent earthquake, because an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and approached the tomb. He rolled back the stone and was sitting on it. …