Paul resolves his teaching on Christian unity, by expressing explicitly that the goal of our love and harmony in the Church - it’s ultimate purpose is to make manifest the GLORY of God. And so Paul doesn’t limit his instruction to merely a set of moral platitudes extolling the virtue of right [...]
The Apostle Paul charges strong believers to forego their rightful liberties in Christ where the exercise of such would bring offense to their weaker brothers. In doing so we discover we will win our weaker brothers over, that we might then nurture them unto strength. When strong and weak believers unite in [...]
Paul addresses the matter of how we find UNITY given the multitude of personal convictions and preferences among believers in the body of Christ. And what Paul does for purposes of this remarkably profitable discussion, is he puts all believers in one of 2 camps. The Strong and the Weak. And how [...]
In our final study in Chapter 13, Paul calls us to consider the incredible wealth that is already ours as Children of God, and the unspeakable inheritance that awaits us in glory. In startling imagery Paul calls the Church to AWAKEN from its slumber and consider the days in which we are [...]
In a hard-hitting Chapter, the Apostle Paul takes up the believer’s relationship to the human governing authorities established by God. Now as beneficial or corrupt or mismanaged as any system of human government is, God has established these temporary systems of authority in order to prop up this fallen humanity bent on [...]
In our final study in Romans 12, the Apostle Paul lays out for us what it looks like for the believer to mature in the Lord. Just as we grieve when our children don’t grow and hit certain developmental milestones, so our Heavenly Father grieves when His children don’t mature into the [...]
We must not buy into the LIE that the fullness of the Gospel belongs only to the super spiritual elite Seal Team 6 Christians. THE FULLNESS of the Gospel belongs to simple believers engaging their brothers and sisters in the precious valuable broken Body to which they’ve been called. What a fantastic [...]
Paul tells the Church in Rome that we are “individually members of one another.” In other words, in the local Church, I am part of you and you are part of me. This is the amazing thing. We're part of one another. That’s who we are! This week in Romans Chapter 12, [...]
One of the most popular questions people ask their pastors is, “Is thus and such the will of God for my life?” And we normally think of the will of God in terms of geography or job decisions or where to attend college and so forth... And yet what the Apostle Paul [...]
