worked out for the good of those who love the LORD, who have been called according to His purpose ( Romans

before Jesus came; this had already been planned by God as He cursed the serpent in the Garden: the woman's And it would come exactly how God said it would: through the offspring of a woman. God sent His Son, born of a woman, not just to take away your sins, but to also still your fears. exactly what He says He'll do; ALIGN YOUR LIFE WITH GOD'S WILL: Thank God for sending Jesus, born of a woman Today: Romans 12

Today: Romans 10

Each major branch of Christianity answers this question differently: Roman Catholics understand that

ASK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED: Read the New Testament in a year, a chapter a day - Romans 14

gospels— Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; the Acts of the Apostles; the fourteen letters of Paul— to the Romans

same level of excitement, love and genuine care that one would expect to see in the most passionate of romances

Summary We tend to romanticize history.

nor Luther 1,500 years later as he defied the Pope's emissary in Worms) were the mavericks we like to romanticize

Still less does it support the romantic imagery, sometimes derived from the traditional but incorrect