It crucifies the flesh. But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith…

Paul's letter to Roman believers teaches us the two fundamentals of Christianity; doctrine and duty. Paul spends eleven chapters rooting them in doctrine and five chapters rooting them on to duty. Doctrine roots us in the soil of God's rich mercy and these mercies root us on in our duty. Since arriving…

Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality. Last Sunday we examine Paul’s call to generosity in our text. Our main point from last week’s sermon was The mercies of God take a person who is bent on getting and turns them into a person who is bent on giving . As recipients of such…

Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality. In Romans 12:9-21 Paul uses participles to help us understand and apply His opening imperative. 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…

The Sovereignty of God is the fuel and fan not the excuse for a devoted prayer life. The longer I walk with him, the more comfort I find in passages like these from Isaiah: remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from…

Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord. IDENTITY CRISIS We all have a particular image of ourselves - beliefs about the kind of person we are. Book sales, podcasts, social media posts, and magazine articles reveal our desire for a strong sense of identity. Human beings spend…

God never means a storm to destroy us but to disciple us.

In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all went to be registered, each to his own town. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city…

But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, Have you ever been in a situation in your life where you felt the timing of something was terrible? I wonder how Mary, a young teenage girl, felt when the angel Gabriel appeared to her with news of her…