When We’re Focused on What Won’t Last

At the beginning of 2022, my church began studying the book of James. This book is so helpful and practical in many ways. But one of the ways that it helps me personally is helping me to see when I’m focused on the wrong things.

Or maybe a better way to say it is, when I’m focused on what won’t last.

The Perennial Issue

James 1:9-11 introduces a perennial issue: our relationship with wealth. More specifically, it challenges the all-too-frequent assumption in a western society that weal...