The report of your obedience has reached everyone. Therefore, I rejoice over you, but I want you to be wise about what is good, and yet innocent about what is evil. The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with...

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. (Romans 15:13 CSB) Having faith is not always easy. Life is difficult. Sometimes relationships are strained or broken, we face...

If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. (Romans 14:8 CSB) The question is often asked, “If you were to die tonight, would you go to heaven?” My hope is...

Do not owe anyone anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. (Romans 13:8 CSB) Can you imagine a world where we lived like this? Where love was the only debt we owed? Instead of sitting down to make a mortgage or...

If possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. (Romans 12:18 CSB) My mom used to say, “it takes two to tango,” and she was right. By definition, arguments and fights require two sides. We often like to think of peace the same way, but...

Oh, the depths of the riches and the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments and untraceable his ways! (Romans 11:33 CSB)  We ask questions when we don’t know the answers. God has all the answers -- He is the answer! We see life in small fragments, but...

One believes with the heart, resulting in righteousness, and one confesses with the mouth, resulting in salvation. (Romans 10:10 CSB) By this point in Romans, we have heard the good news of the gospel. But have we just heard it, or have we believed it? Hearing is not the same as...

So then, it does not depend on human will or effort but on God, who shows mercy. (Romans 9:16 CSB) This is a difficult chapter to understand. If it doesn’t depend on us, then why doesn’t God save everyone? The easy answer is that it doesn’t depend on us; it...

Who can separate us from the love of Christ? Can affliction or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger, or sword? For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor...

For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do what is good is with me, but there is no ability to do it. (Romans 7:18 CSB) Have you ever known the right thing to do, but still did the wrong...