Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

Romans

Life Is Messy, Yet God Is At Work

ROMANS 7:13-25 – “Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure. For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under…

Are You Jesus?

JOHN 12:20-22 – “Now among those who went up to worship at the feast were some Greeks.  So these came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.” Philip went and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.” THEME OF THE DAY: ARE YOU JESUS?   It happened quite a few years…

The DNA Of Sin

PHILIPPIANS 1:19-26 – “for I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my deliverance, as it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by…

The Power Of The Renewed Will

PSALM 73:25 – “Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.” THEME OF THE DAY: THE POWER OF THE RENEWED WILL.  Do we know the greatest power given to those who have become believers in the Lord Jesus?  We might be quick to say, “The Holy Spirit.”  God gave us the power…

Jesus Formed In Us And Flowering From Us

1 CORINTHIANS 13:1-8a – “If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give…

Seeing Sin Right

ROMANS 7:7-13 – “What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.” But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in…