James is not written as sustained argument but as a series of pastoral exhortations, held together by recurring themes rather than a tight logical chain. In this final session we will consider the particular challenges and opportunities of preaching wisdom literature and hortatory material: how to preach individual units faithfully, how to trace James’s major themes across a preaching series, and how to call our hearers to the same kind of lived, active faith that James demands of his readers.
