Romans 8:1-4 Chapter 8 beings with the word therefore and as I heard when I was first a Christian, when you read in the Bible the word therefore you have to ask yourself the question, “What is the therefore there for?” There are three great therefores in Romans. We looked at the first one in…
Romans 7:14-25 There is a lot of speculation about whether or not Robert Louis Stevenson was inspired by Romans 7 when in 1885 he wrote his story, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. But whether or not Stevenson was inspired by Romans 7, his story and this part of Paul’s letter deal with…
Romans 7:1-13 In 1990, our family visited the area of Mt. St. Helena, a volcano that blew up ten years earlier in the week of our daughter Caitlin’s birth. This was a marvelous vacation but I did something that was very difficult for me to do on that vacation. Near the site of the eruption,…
John 14:27 The night Jesus was born, angels appeared in the sky to shepherds out in the fields with their flocks. This heavenly concert announced the birth of Jesus and what was it that the announcement said? “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests.” What…
Colossians 1:13-27 Peter Lee preached last week about Immanuel, God’s gift to us of his presence. He reminded us that Immanuel is a Hebrew word meaning, God with us, and that this word came from Isaiah to a nation troubled by the imminent prospect of war. Immanuel, God with us, came into a time of…