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Doesn’t work the righteousness of God.  Said James, the brother of Jesus.  The brother of Jesus: a man who grew up with Jesus as his brother.  Imagine growing up with Jesus as your brother.   Would it be easy?  Your mother hid secrets in her heart about her firstborn son, your elder brother. He stays behind in the temple because he believes it to be his father’s house and sends the family into a worried frenzy.  In Mark’s gospel the brothers of Jesus seek to do an intervention, thinking he’d gone mad.  In John’s gospel one of the brothers of Jesus sarcastically urges him to go to Jerusalem where all the would-be prophets make a name for themselves.   So perhaps by personal experience James understood that the anger of man doesn’t work the righteousness of God.   Do we?
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Since the average age of the Ann Arbor Vineyard is 33, I do a lot of hanging out with people half my age.  Ebony, who is less than half my age, citing The Fourth Turning, told me recently that we boomers have some important work to do that her generation is depending on our doing.  I think she meant in the culture at large, including the church.  I’ve been feeling the same thing lately.  The boomers have some work to do for the sake of their children and grand-children.  Hence this first of a new blog category: the boomer files.  First up: we boomers better find a way to trust the institutions that cannot work unless someone finds a way to trust them just a little.  The global financial crisis tells us so. 
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