Tag: Paul

Joy Is Not a Feeling — On the Unshakeable Joy That Holds Us

Some mornings, the weight is there before you even get out of bed. You try to pray, but the words won’t come. You try to worship, but nothing rises. And then someone quotes it — “Rejoice always” — and somehow the weight gets heavier. Does the absence of joy mean my faith isn’t enough? The… Continue reading Joy Is Not a Feeling — On the Unshakeable Joy That Holds Us

[Romans Study 11-3] Surprising Blessings of Our Justification (Romans 5:3-11)

[Romans Study 11-3] Surprising Blessings of Our Justification [Romans 5:3-11] More Evidence From The New Testament  There are many more passages about tribulations and hardships in the New Testaments that address our sufferings today. Let us read some of them: “The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing because they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace… Continue reading [Romans Study 11-3] Surprising Blessings of Our Justification (Romans 5:3-11)

[Romans Study 11-2] Surprising Blessings of Our Justification (Romans 5:3-11)

[Romans Study 11-2] Surprising Blessings of Our Justification [Romans 5:3-11] 5 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory… Continue reading [Romans Study 11-2] Surprising Blessings of Our Justification (Romans 5:3-11)

[Romans Study 11-1] Surprising Blessings of Our Justification (Romans 5:3-11)

[Romans Study 11-1] Surprising Blessings of Our Justification [Romans 5:3-11] 5 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory… Continue reading [Romans Study 11-1] Surprising Blessings of Our Justification (Romans 5:3-11)

[Romans Study 10-1] Our Justification and ‘Therefore’ (Romans 5:1-2)

[Romans Study 10-1] Our Justification and ‘Therefore’  [Romans 5:1-2] 5 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, His Love Covers Our Sins Apostle Paul finished his great statement of the doctrine of Justification by Faith alone in the fourth chapter of the Epistle to… Continue reading [Romans Study 10-1] Our Justification and ‘Therefore’ (Romans 5:1-2)

[Romans Study 2-2] Introduction II: Study Of Romans

[Romans Study 2-2]  Introduction II: Study Of Romans Secret Of Successful Bible Study Not Their Story of Old and Then, But My Story of Now and Here! We must always remember that just because something is written to address a specific situation, it is not necessarily transient, and there is no reason a deeper truth… Continue reading [Romans Study 2-2] Introduction II: Study Of Romans

[Romans Study 1-2] Introduction I: Romans And The Key Figures

[Romans Study 1-2] Introduction I: Romans And The Key Figures PAUL: Who Is He? “Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for the Gospel of God” (1:1) We find that the first word in this Epistle is PAUL; it is an Epistle written by a man called Paul.… Continue reading [Romans Study 1-2] Introduction I: Romans And The Key Figures

[Romans Study 1-1] Introduction I: Romans And The Key Figures 

[Romans Study 1-1] Introduction I: Romans And The Key Figures What Has Been Said Of Romans? “This letter is the principal part of the New Testament and the purest Gospel, which surely deserves the honor that a Christian man should not merely know it off by heart word for word, but that he should be… Continue reading [Romans Study 1-1] Introduction I: Romans And The Key Figures 

[Romans Study Foreword] Romans, A Love Letter?

FOREWORD Romans, A Love Letter? Many people say that Paul’s Epistle to the Romans is complex to comprehend. Although it looks difficult, as we deeply meditate upon it, we come to realize that Romans is chiefly a love letter. I had the privilege of attending various Bible studies on this very Epistle. As the study… Continue reading [Romans Study Foreword] Romans, A Love Letter?