God, who sees our trouble and sorrow, longs to be the one who wipes away our tears, who puts an end to our troubles.
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Rend the Heavens
Isaiah calls upon God to rend the heavens and come to earth to deliver his people, but there’s a problem. How can sinful people be prepared to meet a holy God?
Continue readingRomans 8, Part 2: New Life in Christ
In baptism we were crucified and buried with Christ, we have been declared dead to the law and dead to sin. How then should we live?
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Continue readingRomans 7: Dead to God’s Law
What Paul writes in chapter 7 of the books of Romans is so radical that if someone read or heard it without knowing who wrote it they might wonder what kind of godless anarchist the author was.
Continue readingFaith Acts: Noah, Baptism, and Faith.
Faith doesn’t just sit around. It doesn’t just carry God around in its head with it. Faith is active.