IFS Epistle of James Course: Living the Faith
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A free course inside the Everything IFS Academy
The Book of James has often been described as blunt, demanding, or even uncomfortable. It offers little abstraction and no theological cushioning. Instead, it presses faith directly into daily life into speech, money, power, patience, suffering, and prayer. James is not interested in what people say they believe. He is interested in what belief actually does.
Because of that, James has sometimes been misread as harsh or moralistic. But read carefully, it reveals something far more precise: a deep concern for integrity. For wholeness. For a faith that does not fracture under pressure or hide behind religious language.
This free course explores the Book of James as a call to embodied faith, thoughtfully informed by Internal Family Systems (IFS). It is not therapy, and it does not replace Scripture or Christian theology. It is designed for readers who want to wrestle honestly with a text that insists belief must show up in real life not as perfection, but as congruence between conviction and action.
What This Course Offers
This course invites you to encounter James not as a list of moral commands, but as a coherent vision of what mature faith looks like when tested by ordinary life.
Inside the course, you’ll explore:
Endurance as formation rather than punishment
Faith expressed through action, not religious performance
Speech, power, and favoritism as spiritual tests
Wisdom, humility, and patience under pressure
Prayer as lived trust rather than last resort
Throughout the course, insights from Internal Family Systems (IFS) help illuminate inner experience how pressure exposes fragmentation, how fear and pride shape behavior, how integrity grows through endurance, and how belief becomes embodied rather than theoretical.
This approach does not replace Scripture. It does not turn ethics into psychology. It offers another lens for noticing what is already there.
Course Outline
Lesson 1: Joy in Trials
Lesson 2: Don’t Just Hear the Word
Lesson 3: Favoritism Is Not Faith
Lesson 4: Faith Without Works Is Dead
Lesson 5: Taming the Tongue
Lesson 6: Wisdom from Above
Lesson 7: Warning the Proud, Lifting the Humble
Lesson 8: Don’t Speak Evil of One Another
Lesson 9: Riches, Patience, and Perseverance
Lesson 10: The Prayer of a Righteous Person
How This Course Is Different
You won’t find:
Abstract theology detached from daily life
Simplistic moralism or shame-based readings
Faith framed as private belief without consequence
You will find:
Scripture engaged at the level of lived behavior
Space for tension between belief and practice
An emphasis on integrity rather than spiritual image
Each lesson includes historical notes and optional reflective elements, encouraging slow, thoughtful engagement and allowing the text to challenge how faith is lived — not just how it is spoken.
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