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11 And do this, understanding the present time. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. It is important to know your time. My father was offered the original stock for what would become the Polaroid film process. A thousandContinue reading “Romans 13:11”

13 Share with God’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality. 14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. The word practice and the word persecute are the same. We should be pursuing hospitality with the same fervor that our enemies persecute. Wow, I never thought about opening my home and heartContinue reading “Romans 12:13-14”

12 Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. If there is one area I need to grow in it is being patient in affliction! Everything in me screams out, “Get me out of this now!” The ability to stick with affliction, trouble, trial, difficulty is the measure of out true Christ-likeness. TheContinue reading “Romans 12:12”

10 Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves. We all need a good friend or two, someone who will be there for you no matter what happens. For men, it is often your spouse. Ladies usually have a larger support network than men. I want to encourage each ofContinue reading “Romans 12:10”

3 For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you. It is so hard in the ‘days of self-esteem’ to have soberContinue reading “Romans 12:3”

Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. Don’t get off the altar. Stay put. Live there, love there, die there.

Romans 11:36 For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen. Read those words carefully: from, through and to. Picture the direction of those words, out of, through the middle of, and into. It seems to me that the arrows are pointing in all directionsContinue reading “Romans 11:36”

14 in the hope that I may somehow arouse my own people to envy and save some of them. Do our lives arouse envy in other people? Envy for the God we serve? Envy for the stuff we have? Or maybe the god we serve? Do our marriages exemplify the kind of love Christ hasContinue reading “Romans 11:14”

17 Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ. My question is this: Can a non-follower of Christ hear? Can a blind person see the intricate colors of the last sliver of sunlight as it descends? Can a deaf person savor the crispness of the piccoloContinue reading “Romans 10:17”

12 For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, Are we really ready to live this out? Do we in actuality live without prejudice of any kind? How about the homeless, the wealthy, the circumferentially challenged, the ‘never use aContinue reading “Romans 10:12”