We're back to the Book of James this Sunday (and will be there for a few more weeks). Remember that last week we focused on the familiar "looking at your face in the mirror" passage.

This week, we think about what the person who properly remembers "the face of his [regenerated] birth" will do: Good works. James draws some distinctions between the "royal" law versus the law of the Old Testament-- the "big" versus the "small mirror", as one Church Father put it.

And James says this:

Faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead. 

Is James advocating a "works only" kind of religion? How is it, according to James, that faith and works go together?

Take a look into the mirror of the Scripture, see what it says about the face of your new birth, and come Sunday ready to talk about our faith and our works.

Gazing into the Scripture deeply,