New Series - James

I am starting a new series this week which will run through Palm Sunday. We will be studying the book of James. Below you will find the umbrella theme and the topics we will be addressing.

Let's brainstorm a little and see if we can come up with a good title for the series and maybe some images ideas to drive that home.

Big Idea: How following Jesus plays out in every day life.

Topics:
- Growing through the junk
- Wisdom
- Speech
- Faith / Prayer
- Community Life
- Wealth and future plans
- Submitted to God (Palm Sunday - coincides with the triumphal entry and Christ's lordship in our lives)

So the idea is to look at how following Jesus impacts and changes the way we live. Following him has a drastic and paradigm shifting effect on all of these areas of our lives. When we are dedicated to following him we see changes in the way we face lame situations, what we gain through them, how we speak, we increase in faith, we treat others differently, we look at money different and we fully submit to Jesus and see a change in the way we deal with sin.

I will get the ball rolling with some series title ideas:
- "The Big Picture"
- "When the rubber its the road"
- to play off the TV series - "24: A day spent following Jesus"
- "Transformers - more than meets the eye"
- We could play off a popular album concept or movie theme

Anyway, let's see what we can come up with.