Sermon
Orthodoxy is Easy, Orthopraxy is Hard
Center Church
Speaker: Josh Miller
October 13, 2021 · 36 min
Summary
James 1 reveals how the gospel transforms our response to trials and temptations. Believers should count trials as joy because they produce Christlikeness, seek God's wisdom in difficulty, and recognize temptation originates from internal desires, not God. By anchoring identity in Christ's finished work, Christians overcome trials and resist sin.
Highlights
As the gospel goes deeper in your heart, it produces a posture of service in your life.
If your greatest desire in life is Christlikeness, then trials become your servant rather than your enemy.
You are either killing sin or sin is killing you. Those are the two options.