Today, we take a look at Romans 8:38-39, and closely examine God's unconditional love for us. The Apostle Paul confirms that there is truly nothing in creation that can separate us from His love!
Last week we asked, if God is for us, who can be against us? We have an equally important question to explore today: If God has justified us, who can condemn us? Knowing the answer is crucial to our relationship with Jesus!
“I’ll tell you, I have no hope. I see no hope for the world.”
Those are the words of Sir Winston Churchill to Billy Graham when they met after Graham’s 1954 Greater London Crusade. Churchill opined that the headlines were filled with murder and the possibility of war; Communism, he said, might conquer the world. Then he asked more personally, “I am a man without hope…do you have any real hope?[i]
That’s the question everyone is asking: Do we have real hope?
If COVID-19 has taught us anything, it’s that we can’t predict the future. Who would have dreamed that …
Do you know what all is included in the "price of the ticket" of your salvation? We all know that God sacrificed His Son for us. Today we'll see how there's nothing that He will withhold from His children!
We know that Romans 8:28 tells us that all things work together for the good of believers. But how do we understand this verse when we can't see how our circumstances could possibly work out for our good? Let's take a deeper look at this multi-faceted, transformative promise.
Romans 8:28 is a promise we can claim as children of an awesome God! This week, we dive into the certainty and the comprehensiveness of this promise.
The video showing George Floyd dying with his neck under the knee of a police officer, as three other police officers stood looking on, has sparked universal outrage. And with good reason. I found myself wanting to shout, “No! You can’t do that!” as the footage played on our television screens. Someone opined that it was “a reflection of poor police training.” I disagree. You don’t need to have police training to know that restraining an unarmed man by placing your knees on his neck as he lies on the pavement crying that he can’t breathe is wrong—you don’t need …
None of us are strangers to suffering. We understand all too well the "groaning" that Paul describes in Romans 8. But Paul reminds us not to minimize the value of suffering. Our trials should make us eagerly long for our heavenly inheritance!
If you are a Christian, then you are a joint-heir with Christ. What does that mean? It means that you are set to inherit everything that belongs to Christ in God the Father. That's what it means to be a child of an awesome God!
When we consider the character of God, we reach the limits of our imagination. Today, we consider what it means to know God as "Abba, Father." You and I, as believers, have direct access to the eternal Father who secures our salvation!