For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23 CSB) When you have a job, you are paid a wage based on the work you do; gifts are free…we don’t have to do anything to receive a...
But God proves his own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8 CSB) God’s love is unique above all others. He did not wait until we had everything figured out. He is not interested in what we look like or how...
As it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations” – in the presence of the God in whom he believed, the one who gives life to the dead and calls things into existence that do not exist. (Romans 4:17 CSB) The God we believe in makes...
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God; they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. (Romans 3:23-24 CSB) There is nothing you can do that does not fall short of God’s glory. In fact, nothing you or I...
For the hearers of the law are not righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified. (Romans 2:13 CSB) In the last chapter we learned that God reveals Himself through faith. But God doesn’t expect faith to terminate on itself; He wants us to act on...
For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, just as it is written: “The righteous shall live by faith." (Romans 1:17 CSB) How do we show God to others? What we do and say surely matters, but God’s goodness and righteousness is revealed through our...
“Don’t be alarmed,” he told them. “You are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they put him. But go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He is going ahead of you to Galilee; you will see him there...
Jesus let out a loud cry and breathed his last. Then the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. When the centurion, who was standing opposite him, saw the way he breathed his last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!” (Mark...
Then they all deserted him and ran away. (Mark 14:50 CSB) Jesus had prayed and asked the Father to remove the cup of suffering from him. He knew what was ahead, and he knew he would face his trial and the cross alone. The good news for us is that...
As he was going out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Teacher, look! What massive stones! What impressive buildings!” Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left upon another - all will be thrown down.” (Mark 13:1-2 CSB)...