Today is a combination of different pieces that came together to really speak to me today. First came these words from Romans 12:9-21 – which can basically stand on their own without any commentary…some of the most powerful, challenging, convicting, beautiful words in Scripture… Let […]
I know I have said this more than a few times, but I love how I continue to hear new things in Scripture passages that I have read/heard many times before. In the New Testament daily readings, we are in Romans and today was the […]
Romans 16:25-27 – Final Doxology Now to God who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages but is now disclosed, and through the […]
Romans 16:17-23 – Final Instructions I urge you, brothers and sisters, to keep an eye on those who cause dissensions and offenses, in opposition to the teaching that you have learned; avoid them. For such people do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own […]
Personal Greetings I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a deacon of the church at Cenchreae, so that you may welcome her in the Lord as is fitting for the saints, and help her in whatever she may require from you, for she has been […]
Romans 15:22-33 – Paul’s Plan to Visit Rome This is the reason that I have so often been hindered from coming to you. But now, with no further place for me in these regions, I desire, as I have for many years, to come to […]
Romans 15:14-21 – Paul’s Reason for Writing So Boldly I myself feel confident about you, my brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another. Nevertheless on some points I have written to you […]
Romans 15:7-13 – The Gospel for Jews and Gentiles Alike Welcome one another, therefore, just as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God. For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of the truth of God […]
Romans 15:1-6 – Please Others, Not Yourselves We who are strong ought to put up with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Each of us must please our neighbor for the good purpose of building up the neighbor. For Christ did […]
Romans 14:13-23 – Do Not Make Another Stumble Let us therefore no longer pass judgment on one another, but resolve instead never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of another. I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing […]
Romans 14:1-12 – Do Not Judge Another Welcome those who are weak in faith, but not for the purpose of quarreling over opinions. Some believe in eating anything, while the weak eat only vegetables. Those who eat must not despise those who abstain, and those […]
Romans 13:11-14 – An Urgent Appeal Besides this, you know what time it is, how it is now the moment for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we became believers; the night is far gone, the day […]
