God delights in forgiveness
Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more. —Romans 5:20-21 It might come as a shock to you, but God delights in forgiving you of your sins, even when you come to Him with the same sin over and over again. That’s not wishful thinking. […]
Do you live under Adam or under Christ?
For if, because of one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace… reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ. —Romans 5:17-19 Of the billions of people who have ever lived, Paul zeroes in on just two men. Why? Because these two encapsulate […]
Jesus conquered what Adam unleashed
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned. —Romans 5:12 Our world is in pain, and we don’t have to look far to see it. War, disease, broken families, tragedy that strikes without warning. People have asked in […]
We have a love worth sharing
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. —Romans 5:8 I know there are people who don’t like to hear about sin. They think it’s a meddlesome, outdated topic. But it’s precisely against the dark backdrop of our sin that we can truly see all […]
Fortitude in faith
We rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope. —Romans 5:3-4 At what times in your life have you felt closest to God? When did you grow the most? I’ll venture a guess: it wasn’t during the easy, happy seasons. It was in the hard places. […]