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September 11, 2025

What Is Dead Faith – James 2:14-26

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Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates continue a series on “Tough Texts,” and will be looking at James 2 and the “Faith without works is dead” phrase. Is there such a thing as dead faith? If there are no works or fruit, is faith faulty? Is this about faith for salvation or about the faith of a believer for living? Thanks for listening & never miss an episode of the Grace in Focus podcast!

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Are You Getting Paid to Help Others?*

May 12, 2025 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - James 2:14-17, Motivation For Serving, Profitable, what does it profit?

*This blog was originally published on March 28:2016. It has been slightly revised. Let’s say that every Christian was paid daily by God for the work he did that day. He’d be paid for use of his time, talent, and treasure to help the poor and needy, love his spouse and kids, be hospitable, let

March 3, 2023

Why Isn’t James 2:14 Referring to Saving Faith, but to Some Other Kind of Special Faith?

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Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates answer a question about faith and works and about the context of James–especially aimed at clarifying the meaning of James 2:14. Why do so many believe and teach that James 2:14 is about a faith that is connected to eternal salvation? What is the evidence in James and in the whole of the Bible that this is referring to a specific kind of faith that is not related to eternal salvation? Listen and find out! SPECIAL OFFER: Bob Wilkin’s book, The Ten Most Misunderstood Words in the Bible is being offered through March 31st, 2023 at half-price for those who use the code word, “MISUNDERSTOOD.”

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