The gospel is central to our faith. This center will hold. Romans 1 tells us that the gospel is God’s and it concerns his Son. The gospel is the power of God for salvation because it is the message of what Jesus Christ, the Son of God has done to save us. The saving acts […]
How did Paul go from being a persecutor of the church to an apostle of God who preached the gospel? How did Jews and Gentiles in Rome become the saints of God who belong to Jesus Christ? How did we get here, in this state of grace, believing in Christ, connected as a congregation, and […]
Why read and preach through the book of Romans? Because this New Testament letter to the church in Rome contains the central message of the Christian faith. The good news is that God makes sinners right with himself by grace though faith on the basis of Christ’s work on the cross and his resurrection from […]
God our Father wants to conform us to the image of his Son Jesus Christ. He has given us his Spirit who uses his Word to transform our hearts. This work of grace moves us to pursue it by faith. Faith begins in prayer; asking God to open our eyes, give us life, incline our […]
In the Bible, the heart is the core place of a person that determines and drives their whole life. The human heart is by nature sinful and inclined to go its own way rather than the way of Christ. God can change our hearts and incline them toward Christ. He does so by the power […]
The word of God is alive and active because it is inspired by his Spirit. The Holy Spirit uses his word to make us spiritually alive and active in faith in Christ. When we open the Bible, we ask the Lord to revive us according to his word. We seek his grace for awakened, enlightened, […]