Jan 15, 2015 | Romans
Over the years, I have seen parts of hundreds of North American rivers, both big and small. And I suppose that most of you have as well. We have seen many at their source and later seen them at their mouth. For example, most of you have seen the beginning and end of...
Jan 15, 2015 | Romans
I hope that you haven’t been able to discern this, but I’ve been struggling with my messages from this chapter. It’s not that I don’t like what I see here, or that I am afraid that you’ll not like what is taught. I’m struggling...
Jan 15, 2015 | Romans
I think that I have told you about this man before, but I bring him up again because this is important. While I was pastoring in New Mexico, I met a young man and his wife who had marriage problems. They called me for counseling, but unfortunately there wasn’t...
Jan 15, 2015 | Romans
Do you ever feel as though I have been reading your diary, or your mind, or watching you like a Gestapo spy? Without being conscious of it, the pastor should be lead of the Lord sufficiently to expose your secret sins once in a while. It was years ago, but I had the...
Jan 15, 2015 | Romans
As far as I know, the silliest commercials on television right now, are a series promoting Old Spice. And there is one pair in that series which is particularly funny, at least to me. The first of this pair ran for a few weeks, and it was apparently so popular that...
Jan 15, 2015 | Romans
I gave some thought to reversing messages and teaching this lesson this morning. Obviously, these verses come before the verses that we looked at earlier today. And this has a gospel theme, but the truth is, Paul’s reference did not. His mention of...
Jan 15, 2015 | Romans
These verses conclude the first half of the Book of Romans – chapters which deal primarily with salvation. And these words form perhaps Paul’s highest praise for that salvation. The prophet and theologian turned psalmist in these verses. It sounds as...
Jan 15, 2015 | Romans
When I was preparing for today, I re-read chapter 11, jotting down some more potential messages. A sermon could be built around the words, “wise in your own conceits” – verse 25. Verse 25 also makes reference to the interesting thought of the...
Jan 15, 2015 | Romans
As any casual reader knows very well, the Bible is a book filled with blood. Sometimes it is there in all its vivid color, and sometimes it is only implied. And if you stop and consider the subject, that blood is almost always related to sin in some way. The Bible is...
Jan 15, 2015 | Romans
When the Apostle John was beginning his record of the Revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ, he wrote an introduction which set the tone for much of the theology of the book. In Revelation 1:4 he wrote: “John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto...
Jan 15, 2015 | Romans
Like a few of you I grew up in the 1960’s. I was not lost in the 60’s; actually I was found during those 60’s. The Lord in His grace saved my soul – and my life – at a time when pivotal decisions stood before me. I was spared the...
Jan 15, 2015 | Romans
Just as it was last week, this message is really the conclusion of the message started this morning. Last week we looked at the Christian’s sacrifice and then the Christian priest who offers it. “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God,...
Jan 15, 2015 | Romans
As I have said,, we have moved from the doctrinal section of Romans into the more practical section. I say the “more practical” section, because if our theology isn’t practical, then it isn’t Biblical theology. There are far too many people,...
Jan 15, 2015 | Romans
Rarely attending any other church than our church, it’s hard for me to be dogmatic about religious trends. I can read and I can listen, but that sort of information usually comes in a biased fashion, either pro or con. Nevertheless, from what I read and hear,...
Jan 15, 2015 | Romans
Once again, I was surprised to find that we are coming to a doctrine which I have never directly preached. I am positive that in the course of wider messages I have dealt with the Body of Christ, and I am reasonably sure that in some of our Bible lessons on the...
