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...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
As I’ve said before, the kind of study in which we are currently engaged gives us the opportunity to look at subjects that we might not otherwise study. Not only does the text take us to some themes which might be a little more obscure. But then if we permit...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
There is an ancient nursery rhyme which nearly all the kids in my generation heard a thousand times, and I’m sure that many of the kids who are here today have heard it as well. However. I suppose that some people say that “global warming” may some...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
I’m going to start with a very dark image, but I promise to end up in the light, so bear with me. Isn’t it true that the older we get the more we think about death – and our own death in particular? Rarely do children, especially teens, ever think...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
Being a stamp collector, I have been thrown into a circle with a great many other collectors. And quite often someone who collects one thing, also collects something else. For example, the man who delivers mail to our church, is a philatelist – a stamp...
