When the going gets tough

Lizzy Smallwood  |  Features  |  the ENd word
Date posted:  1 Jul 2023
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When the going gets tough

Sometimes, the Christian life can be tough

We are spending some time in the endWord having spiritual heart surgery from the letter of James.

Here is a reminder of Dr James’ diagnosis of us: ‘You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hatred towards God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God’ (James 4:4).

James looks around our lives, at the everyday things, the ignored, entrenched attitudes and habits, and shows that it is these that reveal our spiritual adultery, our divided heart. Then he applies the scalpel...

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