How do you win the war?
Just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity… so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification. —Romans 6:19 Robert Louis Stevenson wrote a classic story in the nineteenth century about a man with two natures living in one body. There was Dr. Jekyll, kind, gracious, benevolent. And there […]
What master are you serving?
Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? —Romans 6:16-18 History tells us that when the slaves were liberated at the end of the Civil War, […]
When was your personal D-Day?
For we know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. —Romans 6:6-7 On June 6, 1944, the Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, and it was the beginning of the end […]
Walk in newness of life
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. —Romans 6:4 There are many ways you and I can express our faith, but one of the most significant is […]
Do you need a mulligan today?
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? —Romans 6:1-2 I have been playing golf for five decades now. And early on, one of the things I loved most was the mulligan, that “do-over” […]