Bible Study - Romans 11
As regards the gospel, they are enemies for your sake. But as regards election, they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers. 29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
Romans 11:28–29 ESV
Do You Surrender?
Name the sin you're facing and you have to answer that question — God's will vs. my will.
Bible Study - Romans 10
...if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved."
Romans 10:9–10 ESV
“Help Me Understand?”
Some of my greatest leadership lessons haven't come from a conference stage. One came from my mother-in-law's kitchen table.
Bible Study - Romans 9
"But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, 'Why have you made me like this?'" —
Romans 9:20 ESV
Bible Study - Romans 8
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
Romans 8:1–2 ESV
Bible Study - Romans 7
I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died. 10 The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me. 11 For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.
Romans 7:9–11 ESV
Bible Study - Romans 6
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 6:23 ESV
A Lot of Words
Here's the challenge in both cases. Whether it's a mountain top or a valley, I need to slow down to hear the story…
Bible Study - Romans 5
Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
Romans 5:3–5 ESV
Bible Study - Romans 4
No unbelief made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised. That is why his faith was “counted to him as righteousness.” But the words “it was counted to him” were not written for his sake alone, but for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord, who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.
Romans 4:20–25 ESV
Bible Study - Romans 3
For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
Romans 3:22–24 ESV
Bible Study - Acts 28
He lived there two whole years at his own expense, and welcomed all who came to him, 31 proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness and without hindrance.
Acts 28:30–31 ESV
What Happens If I Stop?
So why don't we stop? Fear.
It's not that we fear rest — it's what rest might reveal.
Bible Study - Romans 2
You who boast in the law dishonor God by breaking the law. For, as it is written, "The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you."
Romans 2:23–24 ESV
Bible Study - Romans 1
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
Romans 1:24-25
Bible Study - Acts 27
The soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners, lest any should swim away and escape. 43 But the centurion, wishing to save Paul, kept them from carrying out their plan. He ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and make for the land, 44 and the rest on planks or on pieces of the ship. And so it was that all were brought safely to land.
Acts 27:42–44 ESV
