Archive for May, 2008

Romans 9: 1-5

May 19, 2008

Romans 9
God’s Selection of Israel
1 With Christ as my witness, I speak with utter truthfulness. My conscience and the Holy Spirit confirm it. 2 My heart is filled with bitter sorrow and unending grief 3 for my people, my Jewish brothers and sisters.[a] I would be willing to be forever cursed—cut off from Christ!—if that [...]

Judges 9:7-15

May 13, 2008

Today i have read the parable in judges 9 that gideons only remaining son posed to the people of shechem. It is really interesting. as a basic, i know it is saying that everybody plays a role in the body of God. If somebody starts trying to play a different other than [...]

Judges 9:1-6

May 10, 2008

so today is a busy day, but i know what is ahead of me with prom so i am making sure i save time for the word periodically today, but this may be my only post.  On that note, This story starts off pretty intense.    abimelech, the half brother of gideon’s 70 sons, poses a [...]

judges 7

May 9, 2008

is in my notebook for youth. 

Romans 8:35-39

May 6, 2008

persecution and death? demons? destitution? all creation? death threats?  powers of hell?  All of these things sounds pretty serious to me.  those all sound pretty scary and are not things i’d like to deal.  i think each and every one of those have the potential to alter a life very much.  Although the amplitude of [...]

Romans 8:31-37

May 5, 2008

Romans 8:32 “since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’T he also give us everything else?”  (NLT)
I have been very challenged by this verse.  It would take alot for any father to give up the worse of sons.  I am not a father yet (thankfully) so [...]

Romans 8:31-34

May 3, 2008

“for if God is with us, who can be against us?”
31 What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? 32 Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything [...]