yeah, um, good principles, but is that the right passage to draw them from?

this writer seems to be ignoring the surrounding context which identifies the master as Jesus and also teach the same principles of stewardship and readiness for his return. this seems to be a case of "good sermon, wrong text." 

 i would have gotten ripped a new one for mishandling the word of God in preaching class if I did this. like, "Your grade is an "F." Come back when you want to preach the word with integrity."  

I'd prefer to teach that same lesson from James 5:1-5 (or Eph 6 or Amos 5.24 or elsewhere) without undercutting my own authority source by making it say something it doesn't say.  while taking our stand with the oppressed, we must also take our stand for the word of God as our authority and have our feet on solid exegetical ground. otherwise I'd say we are ironically guilty of the same kind of "leadership without integrity" which you are trying so hard to condemn in the article. keep your authority source in tact and just preach the word.