As Christians, we are to be different from other people. If we stop listening to Jesus, we won’t be different. He is the Son of God, He speaks with authority. We are not to be slaves to money or worry but slaves to God.
As Christians, we are to be different from other people. If we stop listening to Jesus, we won’t be different. He is the Son of God, He speaks with authority. We are not to be slaves to money or worry but slaves to God.
Imagine a situation where if you share the message of Jesus, you will be put to death. Paul says ‘submit to the governing authorities’ and ‘overcome evil with good’. How do we do this? He also says ‘let no debt be outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another’.
Paul says it’s good to look back and see God’s mercy. As Christians, we escape God’s wrath. Nothing can separate us from God. We are made alive in Christ.
“Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and[i] knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!” “Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?” “Who has ever given to God, that God should repay them?” “For from him and through him and for him are all […]
Spike Milligan wrote about a poem about a baboon trying to do something impossible – trying to fly. Likewise in verse 2 of this passage we see the Israelite’s ‘zeal is not based on knowledge’. They are trying to do the impossible. We can see reasons why people get to heaven and reasons why people […]
In Brexit negotiations this week, fishermen have accused the Government of letting them down. Politicians are calling each other liars, tearing each other apart. There is no love of their enemies. Being Christians, Jesus calls us to be radically different, in the way we treat our enemies.
Something has gone wrong with the world. Creation groans, as Christians, we groan, and the Spirit intercedes for us with groans.
Billy Graham spoke to over 200 million people in his lifetime and invited them to turn from sin to follow Jesus Christ. One of the rules he lived by was that he would never be alone with another woman, apart from his wife. He did not want his life to be tainted by scandal. We are […]
As Christians we are under new management. We were under Adam and the covenant of works. Now, we are under Christ and the covenant of grace. We have new status, new life and we are a new person. But sin is lurking.
There is a law and yet we are free. We live in tension between the two. Paul tells us we are wretched, but we are rescued. Some believe that the law saves them but Paul shows how this is not true.