Sorry for the delay in our website publications. Our DVD player had one too many power surges and had to be taken to the shop. In the mean time, we were using my computer set up on the TV stand to watch DVDs. Aleah was curious at all the cables hanging everywhere and decided to yank on one. It happened to be attached to my laptop. My laptop lost the battle with the tile floor.

Blake has been leading our team every Tuesday morning in an Inductive Bible Study of the book of James. We started this study 3 months ago and wow, have I learned a lot!! I think everyone on our team is just amazed at how much God is teaching us through picking apart the book of James. We have almost memorized all of chapter one and today we did a very fun and rewarding activity called cross referencing. In the states, we are blessed to have so many books, studies, and mature christian brothers and sisters to help us understand the scripture. Here we have to rely on scripture to interpret scripture. Maybe that's how it's supposed to be, but to be honest, I am lost with out my resource books.

Today we learned how to take a verse from James and use other verses in the Bible to help make that verse more clear. My first thought was, "I can't do this without my concordance." Thank goodness God proved me wrong.

If you'd like to do this fun activity, here's some verses that will get you started:
For James 1: 2 - 4 = God lead our team to Romans 5: 3-5, 1 Peter 1: 6 - 9, 1 Peter 4: 12 - 13
For James 1: 5 - 8 = God lead our team to James 1: 2 - 4, Romans 11:33-36, Daniel 2: 20 - 23, Job 12: 13, 16, Isaiah 9:6, Hebrews 11: 1, 6

The group discussion lasted way into our lunch time. Praise God that he is working in the hearts and lives of our community development team!!