While Romans is one of my favorite books of the Bible, today’s Bible reading* is from my favorite chapter of Romans. Paul has built his argument for the gospel through the first seven chapters of this book. And today’s reading is the climax of the message. One of the last things Jesus said to His…
Yesterday, I said that grace overcomes sin and there is no sin that God’s grace cannot cover. Where sin multiplied, grace multiplied even more. (Romans 5:20) In today’s Bible reading*, Paul asks the natural follow-up question: If that’s true, then, can’t we just sin it up, knowing that God’s grace is sufficient to cover it?…
Paul continues to develop his argument for salvation by grace through faith in today’s Bible reading* from Romans 4. If you aren’t familiar with the Jewish Patriarch Abraham, let me briefly bring you up to speed. Abram and Sarai were an aged couple who had never had children. God established a relationship with Abram and…
Today’s Bible reading* includes Jesus’ “Great Commission”. Jesus has spent three years with his disciples and is commissioning them for their ministry. Grammatically speaking, there is one command with several participles that describe how the command is to play out. He begins with “As you go”. He assumes that His disciples will go. Because He…
Today’s Bible reading* records some of the saddest times of Jesus’ life. He weeps over the religious leaders of His day, pointing out their hypocrisy, and He weeps over Jerusalem for killing the prophets God sent to her. In pointing out the hypocrisy of the religious leaders, he also tells His disciples and the crowd…
Reading the Bible can sometimes be a little unpleasant. If in your Bible reading, you are always comforted, always affirmed in your relationship with God and never feel a sense of conviction of sin, you should ask if you are truly saved. In today’s Bible reading*, Jesus points out some things about divorce and remarriage,…
