One time recently, I was reading Romans 12:12 and was struck by how I am supposed to respond to affliction: “Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer” (NIV). Patient? When I wake up on the wrong side of the bed, it’s raining outside, and I have a headache from listening to the [...]

Today I started to ponder Romans 3:3-4… For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect? Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar. As it is written: “ That You may be justified in Your words, And may overcome when You are [...]

Sometimes the Hebrew traditions of circumcision, not eating certain foods, bringing specific sacrifices, and observing religious holidays seem to be empty and pointless.  As Paul says in Romans 3:1, “What advantage then hath the Jew, or what is the profit of cirumcision?” His answer comes quickly.  “Much in every way!  Chiefly because to them were committed the [...]