Dr. Abidan Paul Shah preaches expository messages each week that challenge and inspire people to live God-honoring lives. Each sermon is based on Scripture and contains timeless truths that are applicable to our lives today.
Humility is one of those words that's easy to talk about and hard to practice. In this message from James 4:10–17, Dr. Abidan Shah walks through what real humility looks like — both in our relationship with God and with the people around us. The vertical aspect, humbling yourself before God and recognizing that every blessing you have comes from him, is the foundation. But the horizontal aspect, how you treat and talk about others, is where most people struggle most.
Dr. Shah connects James's teaching on humility to the night Jesus wrapped a towel around himself and washed his disciples' feet — and lands on one of the most sobering verses in the passage: to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin. Real humility isn't just an attitude. It shows up in what you say, how you serve, and what you do with what you already know.
Dr. Shah writes a personal letter every week — reflections on Scripture, faith, and living it out with clarity and purpose. Join the family: https://abidanshah.com/join-the-family/ (https://abidanshah.com/join-the-family)
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5 Jul 2026
The Four-Letter Word Behind Every Conflict | James 4:1-10
James doesn't ask whether you have conflicts. He asks where they come from. And the answer he gives applies equally to a marriage struggling in the same house, a church fracturing from the inside, and two nations heading toward war. At the root of every battle, James says, is one four-letter word: envy.
In this message, Dr. Abidan Shah works through James 4:1–10 and traces the full path from selfish pleasure to lust to covetousness to murder — and explains why murder in James doesn't always require a weapon. He shares the story of sitting at the Southern Baptist Convention watching a speaker command the room and feeling that thought rise up: why him and not me? He also walks through five concrete cures James gives for conflict — changing your perspective on prayer, the world, yourself, the devil, and God — and closes with Philippians 2 and the only person who ever got all five of them perfectly right.
Dr. Shah writes a personal letter every week — reflections on Scripture, faith, and living it out with clarity and purpose. Join the family: https://abidanshah.com/join-the-family/ (https://abidanshah.com/join-the-family)
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28 Jun 2026
Street Smart, Book Smart, or Word Smart? | James 3:13-18
James asks a question that cuts straight through both confidence and insecurity: who among you thinks they're wise? It doesn't matter if you're book smart, street smart, or neither — what matters is whether your wisdom actually comes from above. In this message, Dr. Abidan Shah unpacks the difference between wisdom that's earthly, sensual, and demonic, and wisdom that's genuinely from God — and makes the unsettling case that even success and good outcomes in your life might not have come from the source you assume.
From there, he walks through seven specific marks of godly wisdom drawn straight from James 3:17 — integrity, humility, teachability, mercy, fairness, and freedom from hypocrisy — using stories ranging from W.A. Criswell taking notes from a much younger Rick Warren to a search for Granville Sharp's overgrown grave in London. But the sermon doesn't end with a checklist. It ends with a much bigger claim: true wisdom isn't a set of behaviors you check off. True wisdom is a person — Jesus Christ.
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