If we were to take this passage literally, how might we apply this? This is a perfect passage for being rich toward God and being poor toward the world. First, we have to create space in our lives to consider a passage like this. We are so busy. And we get into the habit of […]
Sermons
Mark 6 – Calling and faith partners (Part 1 of 3)
6Then Jesus went around teaching from village to village. 7Calling the Twelve to him, he sent them out two by two and gave them authority over evil spirits. 8These were his instructions: “Take nothing for the journey except a staff—no bread, no bag, no money in your belts. 9Wear sandals but not an extra tunic. 10Whenever you […]
Rom 5: Enemies Loving Our Enemies (Part 5 of 5)
What is the surest way to sniff out a religious person? A religious person is someone who does the church thing but cannot forgive his or her enemies. This is where religion meets its limitation. We can attend all the events, we can control ourselves and avoid the blatant sins. We can even consider ourselves […]
Rom 5: Enemies Loving Our Enemies (Part 4 of 5)
The gospel is good news because while we were enemies of God, God did not treat us the same way we treat our enemies. God should have wiped us out. He should have done the crane technique on us. He should have punished us, he should have banished us forever, he should have ignored us […]
Rom 5: Enemies Loving Our Enemies (Part 3 of 5)
Are you still having trouble seeing yourself as an enemy of God? Can I suggest why that might be for some of us? As P. Don talked about at the retreat we just had, we put on our coat of religion and we deceive ourselves into thinking that we are not that bad.
Rom 5: Enemies Loving Our Enemies (Part 2 of 5)
Do you consider yourself an enemy of God? We know we are all sinners, but an enemy? That’s kind of harsh, isn’t it? We never hurt anyone. We don’t even have any human enemies, how can we be an enemy of God? We’re all relatively nice. We grew up in nice homes. We have nice […]