by ray | Jun 28, 2011 | NT, Sermons
Rom 8 6 The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; 7 the sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. 8 Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God. 9 You, however, are...
by ray | Jun 27, 2011 | NT, Other Ministries
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by ray | Jun 14, 2011 | NT, Romans, Sermons
Second, once we turn away from ourselves in repentance, we turn toward Jesus Christ in faith. To hammer this point home about faith, I want to read some verses from Romans 3-4. Rom 3 – 21 But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to...
by ray | Jun 14, 2011 | NT, Romans, Sermons
Wouldn’t you agree with that assessment of the human condition? We may look all good on the outside. But when we are honest with ourselves and we look inward, I think we can all agree that we are not good, that there is something fundamentally wrong with us. We are...
by ray | Jun 14, 2011 | NT, Romans, Sermons
We have finally reached the end of our book of Romans. At the time when we began in Sept of last year (9/7/2010), I was in a period of transition as my job had just ended and I was praying about being the pastor of this church. And my first burden was, what do I...
by ray | Jun 6, 2011 | NT, Reflections, Romans, Sermons
What about at a church level? What does judgment and gossip, mixed in with anger, do to a church? It divides people into various camps. In the church at Rome, you have Jewish Christians on one side judging the Gentile Christians. Imagine a conversation between two...
