Pauline Epistles (23)
  1. When God is truly present among us, how can we not, in turn, respond with love for Him?
  2. This text invites you and your people to see in the Christ not only the welcome but the inspiration to welcome the other, indeed the enemy, not simply to put up with, but to love.
  3. The Christ of Romans 13:8-14 is the one who is returning to fulfill our salvation even as we wait, living with one another in Christian love.
  4. He is Immanuel, God-with-us, and He is with His Church, very present where His name is, very present where His gifts are, and very present where His people are.
  5. For all the things that prompt us to our knees in prayer with thanksgiving, this is the first gift He gives: The blood of Christ that identifies those who pray.
  6. Good works, doing good, is not some sort of value-add bonus to the Christian life. Good works are the natural, organic outgrowth of being grafted into the Body of Christ.
  7. The life of the Christian Church in the New Testament period, that is, the end times, the penultimate, is one of persecution.
  8. Paul wants Timothy to share his faith and to deliver it. Paul wants you to share his faith and to deliver it, too.
  9. The heart of Reformation Day is God’s great love for His Church, preserving it in spite of man’s sin and weakness, and transforming the world and the hearts and lives of sinners through the proclamation of the Gospel.
  10. Preach the Word. Preach and teach purely. Care for people, but be no “respecter of persons,” bowing to their appetites, bending to their whims.
  11. Thanks be to God that when we are faithless, Jesus is faithful, even to death, even to resurrection. His own. And yours.
  12. This is theology of the cross. It is a treasure in jars of clay, surpassing power, and faith in folks like Timothy and Paul and in little old ladies like Eunice and Lois.
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