On an ordinary Friday morning, Dr. Wayman Ming Jr. climbed a ladder he had climbed a hundred times before. Then the wasps showed up, and his world shifted sideways in a single breath. For hours he laid in a crowded hospital hallway with seven broken ribs and four fractured lumbar. Unable to move and in severe pain, he found himself asking the question, "Does my faith actually work?"

Many of us find ourselves in ladder experiences questioning our faith. In Faith from a Ladder, Dr. Ming walks verse by verse through the book of James, arguably the most practical letter in the New Testament. Using his personal story, he inspires faith through adversity, mercy, conduct, nearness, and prayer.

A fall is rarely the end of a story. It is where a faith that works when you fall becomes a faith that works when you fight.