In Romans 8, Paul shows how to hold in tension the wonder of God's creation and the bugs, viruses, and venom we see there as well.

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"Justification and sanctification" were the two big watchwords of the Reformation. They can be more easily understood in the terms identity and action.

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Paul, in Romans 7, writes about being burdened by good desires but bad actions. Jesus wants to take away the yoke of a bad conscience and delivers us from the war within.

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"Good fences make good neighbors" goes the old proverb. But are fences always good? Is the offense of the cross that it takes the old fences down? 

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An old proverb says that the one who fears dies many times, but those without fear die only once. If Jesus has defeated death, and God who ought to be feared wants to be known as our true Father, what is left to fear? 

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The Lord has compassion on us, because we are like sheep without a shepherd. How does the Lord shepherd His lost sheep today?

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Do you see God as someone always looking over your shoulder to judge you, or as a shoulder you can lean on in the worst of life's storms? 

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In the book of Genesis, water represents destruction and chaos while the Spirit represents breath and life. In Jesus, both are brought together in Baptism, where water and Spirit both kill us and give us new and eternal life in Christ.

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In John 17, we hear Jesus pray to the Father for us. What can we learn from him and the early disciples about the importance and content of prayer? 

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In Acts 2, Peter was sharing the Gospel with Jews. In Acts 17, Paul was sharing the Gospel with Greek philosophers. With whom are we sharing the Gospel? How do they understand sin and death and the need for forgiveness and life? 

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