Category: Worship

What a blessing it is to be a child of God! In Romans 8, Paul says that we have been given the Spirit of adoption – that is, the Spirit has made us alive in Christ and brought us into God’s family, so that we might call Him “Father.” Four Greek verbs in this passage […]

In Roman 7, Paul describes the war that is the Christian life: the inner being has been brought to new life in Christ, and yet the sinful nature wages war, not wanting to submit to God’s good design. It’s exhausting to agree with God’s Law and yet not be able to carry it out as […]

In Romans 6, Paul teaches us that we have been set free from sin to serve Christ. In Romans 7, he goes on to say that we’ve been set free from the Law through the body of Christ (His fulfilling of the Law and dying for us). That means that God’s Law is no longer […]

In his classic song, Bob Dylan makes the case that no matter who we are, how high or low, we’re going to serve someone – “it may be the devil or it may be the Lord.” You wonder if Dylan was reading Romans 6 when he wrote his famous lyrics… Paul argues that everyone is […]

In Matthew 9 and 10, Jesus interacts with the crowds and has compassion on them. And in addition to providing for the crowds Himself, Jesus also encourages His followers to pray to the Lord of the Harvest to send out workers into the harvest field. These verses invite us to do just that – to […]