All summer long we’ve been climbing. We’ve been talking about what it would finally be like when we reached the […]
Text: Romans 8:38-39This passage contains important news regarding our suffering. It is temporary, educational and ultimately beneficial. Knowing this won’t make our suffering go away, but it gives us a perspective that helps us to keep believing in the midst of hard times.
Text: Romans 8:18-27The whole question of the Spirit-filled life resolves itself into this: Are you keeping in contact with the Holy Spirit? Your job—your only real job as a Christian—is to stay in contact with the Spirit.
Text: Romans 8:5-17I would like to begin with three observations about this famous text. Observation number one is this: Romans 7 is […]
Text: Romans 7:14-25In 1990, Life Magazine published an article naming the 100 most significant individuals of the 20th century. Many of the […]
Text: Romans 7:7-13Perhaps it only happens in a pastor’s family, but when our boys were younger, they used to play church. When […]
Text: Malachi 1-3We begin with the words of Robert Cook: “There is no substitute for character. You can buy brains, but you […]
Text: I Timothy 3; Titus 1In your marriage and in your Christian life, it’s not law but love that matters: The law says, “You must.” Love says, “I want to.” Before you come to Christ, you are on a continual performance standard, trying to do more in order to win God’s approval. But through Christ you discover that God loves you in spite of your failure.
Text: Romans 7:1-6We’ll call him Bill, but it doesn’t matter. He’s been a Christian for three or four or five years. Although […]
Text: Romans 6:15-23There are many reasons people give for not becoming a Christian. Most of those reasons are in the form of […]
Text: Romans 6:1-7