Swelled Heads
I am quite familiar with Paul mentioning (Eph 2.9) that if we could get to heaven by being nice people and doing good works, it would make our heads swell as […]
I am quite familiar with Paul mentioning (Eph 2.9) that if we could get to heaven by being nice people and doing good works, it would make our heads swell as […]
Paul is on a roll. For the second time in two chapters he declares that his readers therefore have no excuse! First it was 1.20, now we come across it in
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After God whips off His list of the 21 favorite sins of previous generations, He adds (Romans 1.32): “Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die,
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I know that thanksgiving is a powerful tool. Today, as I read about people who knew God yet gave Him no honor, and no thanks, I am struck by the
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In our weekly Bible study with teens, we are going through the book of Mark (I always like to start people off with a book that has a cool name!)
The second verse of Romans tells us that God promised the Gospel to us: “[The gospel of God] which He promised beforehand through His prophets” Romans 1:2. Forgiveness, Redemption, and Grace…they were
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Romans 1:29-32 provides us with a list that results from not acknowledging God as God in our lives. When we shut God out of our lives, it produces… 1) All
Psalm 71 speaks to my gray hairs. “Do not cast me off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength is spent.” Yet, the psalmist also
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Romans 1:23 says, “They exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.” In response, God said, “OK, you want
“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth…For although they knew God, they did not honor
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