Romans 13:1-7 is a well known and challenging passage about how we are to relate to government. While it does not cover everything the Bible has to say about human…
As Chapter 12 concludes, Paul continues to exhort his listeners to love. He calls Christians to love even their enemies and to not repay evil for evil. This is in…
As Paul just stated in 12:5, we are “individually, members one of another” in the body of Christ/the family of God. We are because God is love and has loved…
God’s mercy towards us not only moves us to humility towards Him, but humility towards our brothers and sisters in Christ. The context of our transformation by the renewing of…
The mercy of God moves us to not only offer our bodies as living sacrifices, it also compels us to be transformed from the inside out according to the will…
The first 11 chapters of Romans tell us everything that God has done for us in the Gospel of His Son Jesus. Now Paul turns to what we should do,…
As we celebrate the Christmas season, it is important to remember why it is that the Son took on flesh and was born as Jesus. This is what we see…
Finally reaching the end of Romans 11 and the completion of the section that started with Paul asking the question in Romans 9, "What about my kinsmen Israel? Is there…
In this passage, Paul is still answering the question from verse 11, "Is Israel's fall a permanent destruction?" The answer is no, and he uses the illustration of an olive…
Israel did stumble over Jesus being the Messiah. Paul is clear though, that their stumble was not permanent. And It was the means by which salvation came to the Gentiles.…