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Paul seems to be confronting every human being who is a moralizer, who presumes to pass moral judgments on other people, e.g. social-justice warriors. Paul turns from the world of shameless immorality to the world of self-conscious moralism. They set themselves up as...
ROMANS 1:18-32
LESSON 2 DEPRAVED SOCIETY ROMANS 1:18-32 Nothing keeps people away from Christ more than their inability to see their need of him or their unwillingness to admit it. “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but...
ROMANS 1:1-17
LESSON 1 GOSPEL POWER ROMANS 1:1-17 INTRODUCTION (1:1-6) The origin of the Gospel is God. “Set apart for the Gospel of God.” The apostles did not invent it; it was revealed and entrusted to them by God. What we have to share is no human speculation, not really a...
THOUGHTS FROM READING ABOUT FREEDOM FOR THE NEW YEAR
“It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.” (Galatians 5:1) In an essay published in Foreign Affairs in 1950, entitled Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century, Isaiah Berlin...
NEW CLASS
On Thursday, January 5, at 2.00 p.m. I will begin teaching a class at Amelia Plantation Chapel on St. Paul’s letter to the Romans. There will be 15 weekly lessons, concluding on April 13. After an exposition of each section of Romans there will be time for discussion...
CHRISTMAS AND MIRACLES
At that time Jesus said, ‘I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.” (Matthew 11:25) “These things” Jesus is referring to are all the miracles he had performed...
INSPIRATIONAL GIFTS
The following books are available on Amazon.com. An easy way of sharing your faith by letting Amazon mail them for you. They usually arrive in a few days.
THE GIFT THAT KEEPS GIVING
When I was fourteen years old I began reading a portion of the Bible every morning. My pastor introduced me to Scripture Union which provided notes and a plan to help me understand and apply what I was reading to my daily life. Now, 67 years later I am still using...
CROSSING OVER
“Now Christ has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself. Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and he will appear a...
THE SECOND COMING
In the season of Advent we recall the first and the second coming of Christ. The first coming in obscurity and the second coming in glory. How do we anticipate that second coming? A common American Southern farewell is “Y’all come back and see us, you hear!”. It is an...
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