
🎣 Faith Without Fishing? My Father’s Day Fail & the Message of James 2:14–17 🙈 This Father’s Day, my wife gave me a thoughtful gift—a fishing rod and a license—because I said I missed fishing. But here’s the thing... I never used them. Not even once. That unused license made me think of James 2:14–17, where James asks: “What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works?” In other words, claiming to believe something but doing nothing with it is as useless as a fishing license that never gets to the water. This passage doesn’t divide faith into categories nor does it suggest that the faith in question is fake or nonexistent—it simply states that faith without works is dead. In this video, I reflect on that through the lens of my Father’s Day fail, and what it means to live out what we say we believe.

Great illustration! OK if I use it in a class I teach at GSOT?
Dr Brad McCoy
Thanks, and of course! Feel free to use it.
-Dane