Good Morning “Respecters of Authority.”  Dig into Romans 13 today.  Obedience to parents, respect for authorities is BIG in Gods Book.  Remember, Old Testament Law left no room for rebellion to parents.  It was obedience or ultimately stoning if one continually rebelled against parents.  We see that “honoring your mother and father” comes before “do not murder” in the run down of the 10 Commandmen...  Read More

Good Morning “Living Sacrifice, Non Conformers”. Romans 12 reads like a summarized how to live like Jesus instruction manual!  Check it out today!As I mentioned previously, before Jesus, a blood sacrifice was required to temporarily cover sin.  Jesus came and died on the cross and satisfied the payment for all sin, once and for all.  Our forgiveness, our salvation by the Mercy and Grace of God thr...  Read More

Good Morning Gentiles.  Today we are in Romans 11.  Here Paul addresses the tendency the Roman church had to begin to think themselves superior to the Jews.  After all, they “got it” but the Jews didn’t.  They put Jesus on the cross.  Make no mistake, they are STILL His chosen.  It is by their lack of faith that we received the offer of salvation, the right to become children of God.  If God so lo...  Read More

Good Morning “Beautiful Feet.”  Check out Romans 10. Powerful stuff here!From Romans 1 we know that the Truth of God has been revealed to all of mankind since the beginning - so that we are without excuse.  We see Him in all of Creation.  We call that General Revelation, and it is sufficient for condemnation.  General Revelation isn’t however sufficient for Salvation.  In other words, in order to ...  Read More

Good Morning Loved and Called.   Check out Romans 9 - it’ll mess with your categories.Among other things Paul is dealing with the doctrine of Election in correlation with the doctrine Mercy and Grace.  That is to say, God chooses some, and some He doesn’t; yet, in HisMercy and Grace - “God so loved the world that He sent His one and only son that whoever believes in Him would not perish but have e...  Read More

Good Morning “Conquerers”. “Even More Than Conquerors” is what I meant to say.  Dig in to Romans 8 and see why.At the moment of Salvation the Holy Spirit indwells us.  He guide, leads, teaches, convicts, gives comfort and peace and even prays for us. Check it out…“In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for ...  Read More

Good Morning “Law Breakers” - Ha Ha. (That’s all of us). Today we’re in Romans 7The Law was meant to define and incite sin.  We’ve all sinned and sin, and in so doing fall short.  If it wasn’t for the Law there would be no defining of sin.  Don’t think about elephants… are you thinking about elephants?  There it is - The Law, then sin demonstrated.  If it wasn’t for the law and then the breaking o...  Read More

Good Morning “Freed Slaves”.  Dig into Romans 6In chapter 5 Paul discussed the limitless Grace of God (where sin increases, grace increases - demonstrating Gods love and glory).  Now he addresses the ridiculousness notion that “If God’s glory is demonstrated when we sin, then maybe we should just keep on sinning so that His Grace would abound and even more Glory be revealed.”“What shall we say, th...  Read More

Good Morning “Those blessed through suffering.”  Today we’re in Romans 5.Blessed through suffering… what a strange concept.  Having hope in the midst of darkness is indeed a blessing but how does it come?  According to Paul, who definitely knows, hope comes through suffering.“And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffer...  Read More

Good Morning “saved only by faith.”   Check out Romans 4 today.  Paul addressing the question, “How were people saved before Jesus came?”  How could someone be saved by faith in Jesus and His blood shed on the cross for their sins when that had not happened yet?God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow.  People before Jesus were saved by faith in God and Jesus to come, just like we today are s...  Read More

Good Morning you who are justified by faith.  Dig into Romans 3 today!  There is no longer Jew or Gentile for all have sinned and fallen short of the Glory is of God.  In this chapter Paul is dealing with the idea that when we sin, our unrighteousness shines even more light on Gods righteousness.  While it’s true that even we shine brightest in a dark world any notion that we should keep on sinnin...  Read More

Good Morning passengers in this boat together.  Check out Romans 2.  Bible publishers broke the Bible into chapters - the writers didn’t.  Paul’s letter to the Romans was continuous.  At the end of Romans 1 we read this, “Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them....  Read More