About ten years ago we went on holiday as a family to Switzerland. We arrived at the campsite after dark and woke up the next day to find that it was a public holiday. And on public holidays in Switzerland everything is closed! There wasn’t…
Category: Romans
Next week I will preach on Romans 14 14:1. Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgement. 4 Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to…
We live in a complicated world – a moral maze. How do we know what is right or wrong? Abortion, Euthanasia, Stem cell research, global warming, the population explosion, being rich Christians in a world with so much hunger. How do we make moral choices…
There are now just 51 shopping days until Christmas! By now many people have bought their presents. Some have written and addressed their cards. Many have already booked their Christmas dinner. I guess that most of us have thought about where we will be spending…
This morning a suicide bomber killed at least seven worshippers and injured dozens more in an attack on a Roman Catholic church in Keduna, northern Nigeria. Compared to our brothers and sisters in places like Pakistan, Syria and Nigeria, Most Christians in Britain don’t really…
If you look up the origins of the word “sincere” you will find it comes from two Latin words sine and cera. Together they meant “without wax”. Centuries ago when a potter made a vase or a bowl he would put his own seal or…
12 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. 2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by…
Romans 12:1 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. It was the great preacher Doctor Martyn Lloyd Jones who said, “whenever you find a…
For a thousand years the people of Israel had been waiting for their Messiah. But when Jesus Christ the Son of God was revealed, very many of God’s chosen people rejected Him As we were thinking about this morning from Mark 6, when Jesus went…
All through Romans we have been learning about God’s wonderful way of salvation through grace in Jesus Christ. We have heard many times about how God offers to put people right with Himself through the death of Christ on the cross. And we have heard…
ROMANS 8: 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? …. 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For…
28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, What a comforting verse this is. But one that is so often torn out of its context. But we actually lose much of the meaning of Romans…
Romans 8:19 19 The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. J.B.Phillips lovely translation says this, “The whole of creation is straining on tiptoe just to see the wonderful sight of the sons of God coming into their own.”…
Romans 5:17 For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ. “Reign…
John Stott called his fine commentary on Romans chapters 5 to 8 “Men made new”. And that is the wonderful truth! We have been thinking about the blessings of salvation the gospel brings to all who believe. We have been given peace with God, the…
We are saved by grace alone, through faith alone! We have been blessed in so many ways, not least in peace with God, a hope which will never disappoint us and a joy which overflows even in the midst of suffering. So how then should…
Romans 1:16 I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: Romans 3: 22 This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, 23…
God’s plan of salvation 21 But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. 22 This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference,…
THIS SERMON was originally part of the series “What is salvation?” Since it belongs equally well in the series on Romans I am reposting it here for anybody who missed it first time round, or who wants to be reminded of the heart of the…
What about those who have never heard the gospel? Jesus said in John 14:6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me The apostle Peter in Acts 4:12 preached, 12 Salvation is…
Riots. Inflation. Global warming. Droughts and floods. Unemployment. Murders and so many other types of terrible crimes. Did Louis Armstrong really say to himself, “What a wonderful world”? Of course it was a wonderful world when God created it. And not everything which God saw…