This 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 8:5-17Do you have a favorite chapter of the Bible? That is, do you have a chapter that is so special […]
Text: Romans 8:1-4In 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 1-3The date—750 B.C. The place—Jerusalem. The man—Jehoshaphat, King of Judah, a good king, the son of Asa. During his reign […]
Text: II Chronicles 20Our story begins in 1833 when a man named Joseph Kettlestrings, an Englishman from Yorkshire, arrived in the Chicago area. […]
Text: VariousIn 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