Bible Study - Ecclesiastes 1
I said in my heart, “I have acquired great wisdom, surpassing all who were over Jerusalem before me, and my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.” And I applied my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a striving after wind. For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.
Ecclesiastes 1:16–18 ESV
Bible Study - Romans 16
Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, who risked their necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks but all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks as well.
Romans 16:3–4 ESV
Bible Study - Romans 15
We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2 Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.
Romans 15:1–2 ESV
Bible Study - Romans 14
For it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.” 12 So then each of us will give an account of himself to God.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2025), Romans 14:11–12
Bible Study - Romans 13
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2025), Romans 13:1
Bible Study - Romans 12
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Romans 12:1–2 ESV
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