So they've now brought Jesus to Pontius Pilate, the regional Roman governor. Dig Deeper Political kingdoms, especially like the Roman Empire that Pontius Pilate represented, rely describes Jesus' truth - the gospel - as the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes (Romans

man is performing many signs. 48 If we let Him go on like this, all men will believe in Him, and the Romans Their logic was plain to see: If we let Him go on like this, all men will believe in Him, and the Romans they valued their places so much that they ended up losing both their place and their nation to the Romans

you must do.” 7 The men who traveled with him stood speechless, hearing the voice but seeing no one. 8 to Jesus moment at all, much less one as amazing as what Saul, who of course is better known by his Roman Back in 8:58, we read that the witnesses at Stephen's 'trial' laid aside their robes at the feet of a

leaving to deliver a financial collection other churches have raised for the famine stricken Jerusalem (Romans innocent of the blood of all men. 27 For I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole purpose of God. 28 Dig Deeper Don't miss the huge warning Paul gives in today's passage: 28 Be on guard for yourselves

These women faced a challenging dilemma because in Roman culture a wife was expected to adopt the religion Jesus living in a predominant pagan society or the 1st century wives of unbelieving husbands in the Roman glorify God; ASK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED: Read the New Testament in a year, a chapter a day - 1 Corinthians 8

withered because they had no root. 7   Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. 8   As Paul wrote the Romans in Romans 1:21, “For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God

overbearing, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not pursuing dishonest gain. 8  Other denominations, like Methodists and Roman Catholics, have an episcopalian type of government in In the Roman Empire, rich landowners would appoint stewards to manage their far flung properties.

Jesus, yet in condemning him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath. 28 challenge as they rediscovered the doctrines of grace and worked to wean people off of the rituals the Roman Today: Luke 8

A sacramentum  referred to the sacred oath of allegiance that Roman soldiers would swear upon entering This oath was a personal commitment to loyalty and obedience to their commanders and the Roman state. oath was made with their right hand raised, and their left hand resting on a symbol of the powerful Roman the recruit certainly swore his commitment, and in response, the military gave him an identity as a Roman

choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples. 8  Make sure, by the profession of your mouth and the belief in your heart (Romans 10:9) that you are in Today: Matthew 28