1 Corinthians 1 – What is a Saint?

Well done if you managed to read all the way through the book of Romans. I am sure it was profitable. Sorry about yesterday and the lateness of this one, but the PC packed up and then I have had to re-install a lot of software to get things up and running again. Now to [...]

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No post today

PC is in for repair today so I don’t think I will be able to post my blog. Sorry.

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Romans 15v14-33 – In need of prayer.

It seems that throughout the ages there has always been some Christians who stand head and shoulders above the rest. We tend to put them on a pedestal and think of them as super-saints. Paul is one of those people, surely. When we read the New Testament we can often think there was no-one quite [...]

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Romans 15v1-13 – Jesus and the Old Testament

Here in this passage Paul says ‘For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope’ [4]. He is obviously referring to the Old Testament and goes on to make a number of quotes from it regarding God’s dealings [...]

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Romans 14

What a very challenging passage this is. It is a shame more Churches and Christians do not take heed of it. How many churches have been split over issues that are really not that important? How many Christians have fallen out with another Christian over what are really secondary issues? Paul is dealing with issues [...]

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Romans 13

The news here in the UK has been dominated by the riots that have been taking place in London initially and then in some of the other major cities. Thankfully things seem to have calmed down now and clearing up operation is under way. The politicians are debating who or what led to this situation. [...]

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Romans 12

In Paul’s letter to the Ephesians Paul tells us to put on the whole armour of God so that we can stand against all the schemes of the devil. One of the pieces of armour are the shoes which Paul likens to ‘the readiness given by the gospel of peace’ [v15]. The Gospel brings peace [...]

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Romans 11v19-36

Just a couple of thoughts from these verses. Picking up on what I said yesterday, verses 30-31 would again indicate that there will be a working of God amongst the Jews – ‘Just as you were at one time disobedient to God but now have received mercy because of their disobedience, so they too have now [...]

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Romans 11v1-18

Romans 11 is a controversial passage and Christians have different interpretations to it. It seems to me in the section we have read that Paul says God has not rejected the Jews for good. They rejected Christ but God has not rejected the Jews. Paul uses himself as an example to prove this [v1]. How [...]

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Romans 10

Again so much is packed into this passage. Paul is showing us the error of the Jewish nation. They have tried to get right with God through keeping the law [an honourable thing to do] but the law could never save them. They were relying on their own righteousness rather than the righteousness of God [...]

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