received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles for His name’s sake serve in my spirit in the preaching of the gospel of His Son, is my witness as to how unceasingly I make mention of you, 10 always in my prayers making request, if perhaps now at last by the will of God I sheer grace earned for us by Christ, not only others, but I too, have had my sins forgiven, have been made It is very likely my favorite book of the Bible.

God infuses new qualities into the will,  making the dead will alive,  the evil one good, the unwilling Synthetic righteousness is the seemingly good deeds we produce in and of ourselves in order to make our come to know Christ, the more you will naturally and organically bear this fruit in your life and be made

Summary Jesus broke every public relations rule there is. Every part of you must look different as a result of participating in the Lord's Supper.

about the sixth hour to pray. 10 But he became hungry and was desiring to eat; but while they were making So when we see the otherwise impusively courageous Peter, of all people, hesitate to take a bold step Up until this point, the Church has revolved around a very Jewish orbit. But it's here in Acts 10 that God makes good on a promise He'd made two millennia earlier: that through

in his mouth.” 23 When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made 20: The Justice and Mercy of God in Christ We believe that God— who is perfectly merciful and also very So God made known his justice toward his Son, who was charged with our sin, and he poured out his goodness nails driven into His hands and feet, how much more did He who "committed no sin" not deserve to have every The second hina clause takes things a step further: not just must you live as Jesus lived, you must die

But John, as he reports this encounter to us, doesn't seem very fixated upon these ancillary details. Although Jesus makes reference to these things, they're not His primary concern. It's not that He doesn't care - in fact, this narrative makes His compassion abundantly evident! Dig Deeper You probably know - or at the very least, encounter - lots of people with lots of big problems So it only makes sense that the better you know your Bible, the better you'll be equipped to apply it

While we celebrate the resurrection every time we gather for worship, we especially do so on Easter Sunday wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every

Atonement We believe that Jesus Christ is a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek— made This was one of the key charges that the Jewish establishment had brought against Jesus, trying to make But Jesus' kingdom - the one that's not of this world - takes a different approach. But Pilate, as smart, erudite and powerful as he was, makes it clear he wasn't really interested in the

is before our eyes like a beautiful book in which all creatures, great and small, are as letters to make Second, he makes himself known to us more openly by his holy and divine Word, as much as we need in this Dig Deeper This harsh passage leads to very good news. Nobody ever wants to hear the doctor say the word 'cancer,' but yet knowing exactly where the cancer The very first word that Jesus spoke in beginning His earthly ministry reveals the solution to our primary

Dig Deeper It's easy to confuse who is making the promises as the sacrament of baptism is being applied ensure their child will come to know Jesus as Savior, but even the congregation is asked to rise and make But don't ever forget that these promises are made in response to the promise God has made first. Knowing that an unchanging God chose us before the world was created assures us that He will never ever extends His covenantal offer of salvation to not just particular people, but also their children, it only makes