The Struggle Is Worth It Romans 8 is one of the most beautiful chapters in all of scripture. After all the building throughout the book, Paul reaches a climactic midway point that ties together the main points of the entire first half and sets up the rest of the book.…
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The Struggle Is Real
The Struggle Is Real Addiction. Many of us have been warned about the dangers of addiction by respected authority figures in our lives. Whether at home, school, church, or elsewhere, we are told about the dangers of addictive substances and behaviors - things that lure people into a trap and…
The Rules Are Killing You
The Rules Are Killing You The opening paragraphs of the Bible depict God's words as being extremely powerful. He speaks the world and everything in it into existence. God utters a command, and things simply begin to exist. God said it, and it was so. So, doesn’t that obviously…
No Broken Promises
No Broken Promises In Romans chapter 4, we encounter the story of Abraham, retold through a new lens in order to address a new context. Paul, a Jewish man born in a Greek town and raised as a citizen of the Roman Empire, a crossroads of three cultures, has spent…
Bad Christians
Bad Christians Does being religious make you a good person? At one time in history, people generally thought that being a good person involved God, Church, and the Bible. But the public perception of Christians has changed over time. Many people are skeptical of the seemingly endless denominational divides among…