Today’s reading is Romans 11: 1-10 Paul continues wrestling with the tension between God’s eternal covenant with His people and the truth that salvation comes through faith. He is holding these two together. God will not forget His people. Salvation comes … Continue reading
Today’s reading is Romans 10: 5-21 As I’ve mentioned before Romans is so full of verses that are so important to our faith. Today’s passage has one of those passages, Romans 10:9. Let me give it to you again, for you … Continue reading
Today’s reading is Romans 10: 1-4 Today Paul talks about trying to establish righteousness on your own. Establishing righteousness via your own efforts, your own works, your own laws, your own efforts. We try so very hard to do it all … Continue reading
Today’s reading is Romans 9: 30-33 Paul today, as he will through the next few chapters wrestles with the fact that the Gentiles found the righteousness that they weren’t even striving for, while others were striving for righteousness through the law, … Continue reading
Today’s reading is Romans 9: 19-29 So today, Paul continues his “lawyerly” ways and make an argument. If salvation is the work and effort of God, why does God hold guilty that that do not believe, if it is given via … Continue reading
Today’s reading is Romans 9: 1-18 When I read Romans 9 through 11, I think of the words of one of my first mentors in ministry, Dr. Harold Bryson. Dr. Bryson taught for years at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and … Continue reading
Today’s reading is Romans 8: 31-39 Today, this great chapter comes to an end and what a way it ends. We were started off being told that we are not condemned. Then we learn that all things work for good. … Continue reading
Today’s reading is Romans 8: 18-30 Romans 8 is a tour de force. Every last bit of it is great and has something really significant to speak to us. Today’s passage answers one of the major questions in life, why … Continue reading
Today’s reading is Romans 8: 1-17 This is why we had to walk through the sin and agony of Chapter 7, why we had to experience that frustration with yourself and your sin. We are tempted to beat ourselves up, to … Continue reading
Today’s reading is Romans 7: 14-25 Today’s story is all our story. It is the story of faith and of struggle and of everything. Today’s text is the story of everyone that has tried to love and serve Jesus. Paul knows … Continue reading
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