Choices: From Decition to Blessing: The Letter from James Workbook: From Deception to Blessing

With the abundance of Study Bibles, commentaries, and explanations of Scripture, the question remains: How can we genuinely know what we believe? It's easy to rely on external teachers for understanding, but what do we do when their interpretations don't align with our core convictions? Find another teacher?

How do we know when God is speaking? By coming to know the meanings and significance of the words He has spoken. Assurance of what we believe lies within the words of the Word itself.

To do this we need to read the Bible ourselves; we have to ask the questions and find the answers in the words. A good place to begin is with this little epistle of James, just 108 verses and 2265 words in the New King James Version.

That's the purpose of this workbook---to help you ask the questions and find the answers yourself in God's Word. I provide an opening blurb to set up the context in each of the 15 sections in James. Then I supply questions that should stir your contemplation. Then I provide organization with fill-in-the-blank exercises that are keyed to my book Choices: from deception to blessing.

James is a book about choices. One of the first choices is to read it and listen to its words. This workbook is designed to help you make and follow through with that choice.

ABOUT THE AUTHORJames Schuppe was born and raised in a Christian family in the Washington DC area where his father served in the Post Office Department of the US government. He trusted Christ as Savior in 1949 when a neighbor took four or five kids on the block to a meeting he was holding at a local church. He entered the Washington Bible College in 1959 and then the Capital Bible Seminary in 1963, graduating in 1966. He accepted a full-time position as instructor in speech at the college for the fall of 1966 and taught there for twenty-three years.Jim and the former Martha Hearn were married in June 1970 at her father's church in Rossville, Georgia. They have been blessed with six children, fifteen grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. In 1989 the family moved to Lynchburg, Virginia, where Jim taught at Liberty University for seven years. For a short time he served as interim pastor of Grace Church in Roanoke, Virginia.He became pastor of Belcroft Bible Church in Bowie, Maryland, in 1996, and served there for sixteen years, retiring in 2012. He and Martha moved to Shepherdstown, West Virginia and enjoyed country life together in "almost heaven" for almost 9 years until Martha entered the real place in the Spring of 2021. Jim still enjoys being involved in teaching and preaching, hanging out with the family, music, attempted sports and amateur auto mechanics.