In the Season Two finale, Jane gives an emotional depiction of not only the posture of Elijah's 1 Kings 18 praying, but the jaw-dropping correlation between the servants going-back and James' talk of prayer in the final verses of James 5. She answers the raw and honest question: "If God's going to do His will anyway, what's the point of praying?" And we dig into the unrelenting power of James' final power-punch of faith and works: the working of faith through prayer (and why fighting through every opposition to persevering prayer is worth every ounce of the war).

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We're approaching the end of James' letter with a quick look back at every use of "works" throughout the entire book, and his last use of the word in regard to the farmer. We do a deep-dive into what "establishing" really means, and we learn the art of looking forward to the next advent (and not just celebrating the first).

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We round out James 4 by continuing to dig deeply into the technicalities of the Greek linguistics. We re-visit his story to find the one study-lens that shifts James' "Do not speak evil of one another" from a stern tone to a humble one. We see that life really is just a vapor, and we talk about how sin does and does not look when it comes to God's wisdom.

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