Dec 16, 2018
Paul moves from telling the Roman brothers and sisters his hopes and plans to come see them, (15:22-33) to greeting an incredible list of people, including 26 individuals, 2 “families” and 3 “house churches”. Paul hasn’t been to Rome, but we see that he knows a number of people he has either heard about, or...
Dec 9, 2018
Paul closes out the theological teaching of Romans by reminding and encouraging the believers to welcome and accept one another. Much of this letter has dealt with the differences between Gentiles and Jews, and he has just spent a considerable amount of time dealing with differences in convictions between “weaker...
Nov 25, 2018
Needless to say, devout Christians sometimes have very different convictions. Conflicting convictions threatened the unity of the church in Rome to whom the Apostle Paul wrote the letter of Romans. Romans 14:1–15:13 is Paul’s plea for mutual acceptance and unity. Before reading the passage, let’s consider the...
Nov 18, 2018
Conflicting convictions threatened the unity of the church in Rome to whom the Apostle Paul wrote the letter of Romans. Romans 14:1–15:13 is Paul’s plea for mutual acceptance and unity.
Nov 11, 2018
We owe love to Christians and non-Christians alike. But this runs completely counter to what the world tells us. The world tells us the only people we are obligated to love are members of our family and even that is negotiable. The world also tells us to only love those who love us. Our flesh, when we were in Adam, told...