What is the point of God’s law/the rules? Today we share the 3 reasons God created ‘the law.’ Paul wrote a letter to the Church in Rome. Just so you understand who Paul is writing to, they are Jewish Christians who gathered in many homes. They believed in Jesus but they also believed that you must follow all the rules to be accepted by God. For example, believing in Jesus isn’t good enough, you also had to be . . . Read More »
If You Call Yourself A Christian
I wanted to start out with reading Romans 1:16 again. If you don’t know or couldn’t tell, I have 1.1.Six tattooed on my arm, which stands for Romans 1:16. I believe this is the central theme of Romans, and should really be tattooed, if not on your arm, on your heart as a follower of Jesus Christ. Read it out loud: “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation . . . Read More »
There’s No Replacement For Experience
So today we continue this walk through the book of Romans, and this particular chunk of scripture really captured my heart. If you recall last week we jumped into a really heavy chunk of the letter didn’t we? Last week we talked about how we had some good news and some bad news right? Paul presented us with a problem, not just a problem but THE PROBLEM. We suppress the truth. The truth is that there is a . . . Read More »
I Got Some Good News and Some Bad News
Last week Ken opened our new series and I can’t tell you how excited I am to get into this awesome letter that Paul wrote! We are going to be spending a few months walking through the book of Romans! Today Kim and I are going to kick off this line by line walk through of the scriptures looking at a pretty heavy chunk of scripture. When I first read through this and started to study it, I . . . Read More »
The Point of Romans: God Did It For Us
I want to do three things today. I want us to begin by understanding the context of when Romans was written. Secondly, let’s understand why Paul wrote Romans and the major parts of the letter. Last, let’s talk about what this letter means to us today. I want to tell you a story and it begins a couple days after Jesus left earth. There are a couple of things going on. First, the disciples watch the leader, Jesus, . . . Read More »