Today’s reading is Romans 12: 9-21 So much practical advice in today’s reading. Love one another. Don’t take vengeance. Feed your enemies. Care for them. But the verse here that I love is when it says to do good to your … Continue reading
Today’s reading is Romans 12: 1-8 Romans 12 is to me much like Romans 8. We could spend years in this chapter. It’s so good. There is so much good stuff here. I would encourage you to go back again and … Continue reading
Today’s reading is Romans 11: 25-36 Today we see the part of Paul’s struggles with God’s grace and salvation. The rest of Romans will delve more into the practical nature of salvation and a holy life. The verse that resonates with … Continue reading
Today’s reading is Romans 11: 11-24 Paul takes his struggling to understand God’s mysteries and now address the Gentiles. They should not feel superior to the Jewish people. They were not saved because they are better or more holy or have … Continue reading
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
