Romans 8 (Blow Out Candles)

September 22, 2019 In his book The Gift of Forgiveness, Charles Stanley tells the following story: “One of my more memorable seminary professors had a practical way of illustrating to his students the concept of grace. At the end of his evangelism course he would…

Romans 7 (Tug-of-War)

September 15, 2019 When I was in elementary school, on the last day of school, we’d have a field day, and the field day ended with a pretty weird tradition, if you think about it; the tug-of-war. This is where you take two groups of…

Romans 1 (Good As Your God)

July 7, 2019 Tim Keller wrote: “You can never break any of the other commandments without breaking the first…idolatry is not one sin among many…all our failures are, at their root, based on idolatry.” Each of us has a guiding principle, an organizing thought behind…

Romans 1 (You Say)

June 16, 2019 As we are exploring prayer, and what it means to live by faith, I felt called to go deeper into Paul’s letter to the Romans, the fullest, longest, and deepest of Paul’s letters in its discussion of faith, salvation, and the Christian…

John 17 (Give Way Together)

May 26, 2019 The World Christian Encyclopedia cites that there are 33,000 different Christian denominations. When you look at that number, it’s clear it’s kind of inflated—the Encyclopedia counts some groups whose beliefs fall outside mainstream Christianity, and also counts different groups within denominations as…

Habakkuk 3

April 7, 2019 The dancer Martha Graham wrote:   “Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.”  Habakkuk is not a hero of the Bible we tend to hear much about, like Moses or David or Elijah. Not many Sunday-school songs get written about…