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 [...]
The fight that you and I are in as Christians, it isn’t for sinless perfection - it is to apprehend and delight in the fullness of what God has done for us in Christ. So many of us have settled for the trivial banality of religious mediocrity, where God is offering us [...]
If we really want to know God deeply and personally, we are going to have to come to the Word of God on His terms. This week in Romans Chapter 11, Paul unfolds the unsearchable and unfathomable wisdom of God in dealing with Israel and the Gentiles, using Israel’s unbelief to harvest [...]
The story of Elijah’s despondency after the stunning victory at Mount Carmel teaches us a number of significant lessons. One of which is, we simply do not see the whole picture as the Lord does. And when we filter our version of reality through personal emotional bias and limited understanding, we can [...]
We are saved by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone, and not by works, or by any kind of self-effort or religious performance; this much is crystal clear in the Word of God. But what is equally clear for the saved believer, is that OBEDIENCE is the path to human [...]
