over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance. 8 “Or what woman Tax collectors were hated by the people because they worked on behalf of their Roman occupiers to collect In the second parable, the Parable of the Lost Coin, a woman loses one of her ten silver coins. LIFE WITH GOD'S WILL: Pray that you will have the same drive to seek the lost that the shepherd and woman

It's hard for any of us to imagine what life in an ancient Roman prison dungeon must have been like,

While he was on earth, Jesus prayed for his people , and Paul speaks in Romans 8 not only of the Spirit

Children were an afterthought in that Roman society, and were often considered little more than household

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

the customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans

the doors were shut. 31 While they were seeking to kill him, a report came up to the commander of the Roman

leaving to deliver a financial collection other churches have raised for the famine stricken Jerusalem (Romans

The book of Romans begins with an announcement that the gospel - the proclamation of the good news of

to Jesus moment at all, much less one as amazing as what Saul, who of course is better known by his Roman