were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved” (vs. 4– ASK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED: Read the New Testament in a year, a chapter a day - Romans 16

very heart of the seas, and the currents swirled about me; all your waves and breakers swept over me. 4  Salvation comes from the Lord.’ ” Listen to passage & devotional: Belgic Confession of Faith, Article 4: gospels— Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; the Acts of the Apostles; the fourteen letters of Paul— to the Romans

with their mouth that 'Jesus is Lord' and believes in his heart that God raised him from the dead (Romans

The kings of the earth rise up against the very God who established them ( Romans 1 ).

many ways, preaching isn't all that different from what the great orators who traveled throughout the Roman

Matthew 25:31-46 (NIV) 31  “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will 40  “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’ 41  “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42  For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43  I was a stranger and

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

John 6:25-40 (NIV) CONTEXT: After spending days teaching people, during which He had fed the 5,000, Jesus who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. 40

main schools of thought as to the relationship of Jesus' body and blood and the communion elements: Roman

The Roman Empire referred to them as a triumphus - a parade in which a victorious general would triumphantly