Thank God for his mercy today
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. —Romans 8:1 Remember that it was not Paul who divided his letter into chapters and verses, those came centuries later. So, the despairing cry that ends Chapter 7, “Wretched man that I am!,” runs straight into the triumphant answer of Chapter 8 […]
Victory in Jesus!
Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! —Romans 7:24-25 I’m a huge baseball fan, and one of the all-time greats was Babe Ruth. He came from the humblest of beginnings, abandoned by his parents at seven and raised in […]
You can never find perfection apart from God
For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. —Romans 7:18-19 Listen to who’s talking. This is Paul, in my view the greatest Christian who ever lived, the man who wrote thirteen New Testament books by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. […]
Receive God’s great gift
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. —Romans 6:23 When we share our faith with others, we love telling the good-news part, don’t we? We love to talk about the love of God, the grace of God, the power of God […]
Transformation starts with God
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life. —Romans 6:20-22 There’s an epidemic I’ve noticed in the church, so many people giving little or no real evidence of conversion, of a changed life. And I […]