'Romans' Tagged Posts
February 10, 2016 Intro to Esther
We are moving from the book of Ruth to the book of Esther this week. I decided to do the introduction in my blog because I don’t want to have to rush through it to get to chapter 1. When you turn from Ruth to Esther, you enter a totally different dimension. You go from a quiet Jewish village to a busy Gentile city, from doing business in a traditional way at the city gate…
January 11, 2016 Running
I have been thinking quite a bit about Sunday’s sermon title, “Commit: Don’t Run.” How we handle life’s challenges says a whole lot about a couple of things, our commitment level and our faith. I think more so, our faith. According to Warren Wiersbe in his commentary on Hebrews, “True Bible faith is confident obedience to God’s Word in spite of the…
December 28, 2015 Philippians
I know I haven’t posted a blog in a while but I felt I needed to follow up on the series we just completed in Philippians. Now that we have completed the series we need to not lose what we have learned in this study. The essence of Bible study is living out what you learn, not just learning for learning’s sake. As we start a new year I encourage you follow a few steps…
August 4, 2015 Trust the Heart of God
Do we really understand the heart of God as it pertains to His love for us? Sure, most of us can recite John 3:16 and as we get old enough to be in a meaningful relationship and have children we begin to grasp a little better the love that God has for us. We understand why He gave His Son and we understand Jesus laying down His life for us. But do we really understand…
June 17, 2015 Witness
What is it about witnessing that makes it so hard for most to do? If you stop and think about what witnessing is in the general sense of the word it really doesn’t seem that difficult to do. Dictionary.com defines witness as “to see, hear, or know by personal presence and perception: to witness an accident.” So if you look at it like witnessing an…