A Different Look at the Book of James
By Chris Hammond, MS, IMH Writers, who write best, write from their perspective on life. If you have experienced something traumatic such as the death of a child, been involved in a war or survived a natural disaster and you write about it, then chances are your writing will reflect the deeper and often mixed feelings of the event. You readers are then more drawn into your writing because you wrote from what you knew. Equally significant is taking some time to understand the background of an author before you read their work so the intended meaning becomes clearer. One such author is the James, the writer of the Book of James in the New Testament. So before you sit down to read this very practical and short Book on Christian living, consider the following information. 1. James (James 1:1) identifies himself as a slave of both God and Jesus Christ acknowledging both belief and devotion to Jesus. 2. ...