Romans
This month I’m taking The Romans Challenge. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEoZ3nwIKwo Will you join me?
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Romans is one of my favorite books of the Bible. It’s full of theology AND practical application, so it’s rather dense and meaty to get through. But I love the word choice, the rhythm, and the...
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So… what’s “sticking” to me as I read and reread Romans? Here’s something “sticky” from Romans 1.18-23, 28-32: But God’s angry displeasure erupts as acts of human mistrust and wrongdoing and lying...
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Some sticky words from Romans 8 (The Message): With the arrival of Jesus, the Messiah, that fateful dilemma is resolved. Those who enter into Christ’s being-there-for-us no longer have to live under a...
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More from Romans 8 (The Message): God knew what he was doing from the very beginning. He decided from the outset to shape the lives of those who love him along the same lines as the life of his Son....
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Sigh.. more from Romans (my current “happy place”). Excerpts from Romans 9 (The Message): “I’ll call nobodies and make them somebodies; I’ll call the unloved and make them beloved. In the place where...
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