Reading in Romans 8 Paul spends a lot of time talking about our mindset between walking in the spirit versus walking in the flesh. Naturally, when we are interacting with people our flesh is constantly there interpreting thoughts, motives, attitudes... Continue reading →

Reading In Romans 7 this morning Paul used the covenant of marriage as the Jews knew and understood according to the law, as an analogy to explain how a marriage dissolved by death freed a woman to marry another without... Continue reading →

Reading In Romans 6 this morning Paul was explaining the relationship we have between sin and grace under the new covenant. There was (and still is) a misunderstanding or a misrepresentation commonly made among believers that just because our sin... Continue reading →

In Romans 5 Paul explains how sin came into the world for all of us through one man, Adam. And he contrasts that our freedom from that sin came to the world for all of us through one, Jesus. This... Continue reading →

In Romans 4 Paul gives several examples where God considered people righteous simply because of their faith. He showed that in Abraham’s case, he was considered righteous before circumcision even existed. This was an important point because the Jews were... Continue reading →

Romans can feel so turbulent to read as Paul goes back and forth about the law of the Jews vs the covenant of the New Testament Christian Gentiles. Obviously, Paul had grown up studying the law. He was extremely educated... Continue reading →

In Romans 2 Paul exposes the tendency we all have to look at the sin of other people comparatively with ourselves while justifying or sometimes even doing the very same things in a different form at the same time. Paul... Continue reading →

In Proverbs 8 wisdom and understanding are personified voices speaking to us as if they are living beings speaking directly to us, and telling us all about their nature, their history and begging us to pay attention to what they... Continue reading →

Message/Application: In Acts 28 this morning I couldn’t help but notice that when Paul and the shipwrecked crew of men landed in the unknown little island of Malta, the people immediately showed them extraordinary kindness. They warmed them by a... Continue reading →

Message/Application: Today the story that came up in my reading in Acts 27 today is one that has been on my mind for the past week or more as my family has been going through our own personal storm, and... Continue reading →

Message/Application: Today as I read through Acts 26 I could see that Paul was appealing his case to King Agrippa, who was an expert in the Jewish law. Once again Paul was not appealing his case for the sake of... Continue reading →

Message/Application: Today my focus was on Proverbs 4:23 “Guard your heart above all else for it is the source of life.”  So often I hear this scripture directed toward a stance of protecting our hearts from the damage of other... Continue reading →

Message/Application:  This morning my focus rested on Proverbs 2. Wisdom is speaking and she says that if I would lean into her wisdom and let her words direct my heart closely to understanding I’ll be able to reach for it... Continue reading →

Message/Application:  In Acts 22 Paul had been viciously taken by the Jews who fully intended to kill him but now found himself answering to the Romans who just wanted to know why the Jews wanted him so badly. They were... Continue reading →

Message/Application: In Acts 21 all the things that Paul had been warned about were starting to go down. As soon as Paul showed up in Jerusalem the Jews were all fired up against him making their accusations that Paul was... Continue reading →

Message/Application: As I read through both Acts 20 this morning as well as Proverbs 29 I was caught by a few important things. In Acts 20, Paul had been teaching, leading and discipling these people for all of this time and... Continue reading →

Message/Application: This is a short little devotion but I didn’t see a point in fluffing it up with words.In Proverbs 14 I was reading through the contrasts between wisdom and foolishness, honesty and dishonesty. In the middle of it all... Continue reading →

Message/Application:  Proverbs 9 gives a comparative picture of wisdom and foolishness. Wisdom is prepared and has built a house with 7 pillars. I’m pretty sure those 7 pillars have significant meaning and represent the strength of her character, but the... Continue reading →

Message:  The power of the Holy Spirit is for every believer, but it’s purpose is not to make us look good, or spiritual or powerful. It’s to glorify God and draw people to HIM. Simon, the former sorcerer became a... Continue reading →

Message/Application:  In John 21 the disciples had seen Jesus a few times since his resurrection. They had been interrupted by Jesus during their grief as they hid from the Jews in fear of what might be done to them. They... Continue reading →