Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
It seems like 50 years ago that Judy and I were sitting in the living room of Missionary Ken Johnson for first time. We had been living in Lethbridge, Alberta, for the better part of a year, and he and his family were in living in South Calgary about a hundred miles...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
There is a place not far from here, at which, technically speaking, if three drops of water fell only 1 inch apart, they would begin to trickle off in three different directions. One would eventually flow into the St. Joe River and then into the Spokane. Another...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” This is one of the most famous phrases in the history of the United States. These three things are listed among the “inalienable rights” of every American. I am told that it was Thomas Jefferson...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
In the introduction to a message a few weeks ago, I mentioned my first meeting with missionary Ken Johnson. I said that one of the first questions he asked me was what I understood Paul to be saying in Romans 5:12. What I didn’t tell you was that I fully...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
Let’s start with a silly question: How many points of agreement do two things have to share before they are similar to one another? For example how similar are the giraffe and the ponderosa pine? In nearly every way they are very, very dissimilar. However, they...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
Today has been proclaimed to be “Mother’s Day.” It joins a couple dozen other days of the year as being special – in some artificial sort of way. There are a great many people, mostly stingy men, who would like to do away with any and all...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
There is a thought in these verses which doesn’t make any sense outside of Biblical theology. If I murder a man, but then with remorse, I go to the man’s widow and promise to send her as much income as her husband would have given her if he was still...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
One of the sad realities of human society is the existence of various kinds of dictatorships. There are tribes, countries, families and churches where one man considers himself to be supreme, and he rules the roost with a rod of iron. Often in situations like these,...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
After the introduction to this Letter to the Romans, the rest of the first five chapters have been directed towards people who may still be in an unsaved condition. It is to be granted that this was written to a church, but it was a church with which Paul was not...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
Baptism is something that Baptists have studied, preached and fought for throughout the centuries. When I say “fought for” I mean exactly that – they have fought and died for the truth about baptism. And that was almost from the very beginning of...
