Avoiding money’s pitfalls

Lizzy Smallwood  |  Features  |  the ENd word
Date posted:  1 Nov 2023
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Avoiding money’s pitfalls

For a time in the endWord, we are receiving some spiritual heart surgery as we look at the letter of James. He uncovers some of our more insidious, respectable sins and cautions us from fatally wandering from the truth (James 5:19-20)

It seems that we are always facing a choice as we wander through this life: two pathways – the pathway of Obedience: faith and trust which leads to wisdom, or the pathway of Pride: a wilful double-mindedness that leads to folly and destruction.

Last time we saw James cover Respectable Sin 2 – my wrong attitude towards God in my financial and social standing.

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