Romans 6:8-15 I talked with a friend this week who used to play rugby. For those of you unfamiliar with this game, there are two kinds of rugby: rugby and rugby league. Here is a quote I found that will help you to see the difference. Football (soccer) is a gentleman’s game played by thugs….
Romans 6:11-14 Calvin Coolidge was president of the US in the 1920s and was known for being a man of few words. A man once came up to him and said, “I didn’t vote for you.” Coolidge replied, “Somebody did.” A female visitor to the White House once told him, “Mr. President, I bet you…
Romans 6:1-14 When I was exploring the possibility of choosing to follow Jesus, one of my objections about Christian faith was the hypocrisy I saw in people who went to church. One of the Sunday School teachers in the church I attended while in high school left the US for Switzerland to escape the tax…
Colossians 1:24-27 Aurelius Augustinus, Augustine of Hippo, was born in what is today Algeria on November 13, 354 and died on August 28, 430 when the Vandals had Hippo under siege. Although he lived more than fifteen hundred years ago, Roman Catholics consider him a saint and the pre-eminent Doctor of the Church. Evangelical Protestants…
Philippians 1:12-26 When I was away in October, I finished reading through the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Bible, and then because Dave Robey was preaching through Philippians, I decided to begin reading that book for my devotional time. Philippians is a great book to read and I regret that I was not…