Intro The 16th chapter of Romans is not an insignificant relic of the past; names that are easier to forget then they are difficult to pronounce! Instead it is a chapter of the future not the past, a testimony that…

Intro We conclude Roman’s 15 with the 2nd half of these verses where Paul uses himself as the example to follow as he refers to his own ministry. He tells them in essence, “I got nothing I asked for but…

Intro In most of the New Testament letters you want to look for the purpose that the author had in writing the letter, you will find this in Romans 1:11 where Paul wrote that he, “long to see them, that…

Intro The fifteenth chapter continues on the theme of Christian ethics dealing with how to handle the grey areas that we so commonly disagree on. The summation of what Paul has already written is found in the first verse of…

Intro Paul continues on dealing with Christian ethics and how we behave towards our fellow believers in those “grey areas”. He doesn’t want to leave the impression that mature believers are to just leave alone their weaker brothers, leaving them…

Intro Having dealt with Christian Civics Paul now takes up yet another touchy subject, Christian Ethics. The dictionary describes “Ethics” as a philosophy that deals with what is good and bad, right, and wrong, moral duty and obligation. Often the…

Intro We come now to the 2nd and 3rd parts of this chapter as Paul has been giving us a civics lesson on how to be godly citizens to the “powers that be”. I’m amazed at how the one phrase…

Intro In the 12th chapter Paul dealt with the obligations of love; those within the body of Christ and those outside the body of Christ. Now Paul points out that we have obligations to love outside these personal relationships to…

Intro A man was walking by a used bookstore and saw a book that intrigued him by what he thought was its title “How to Hug”. When he went in to purchase the book he was disappointed because instead of…

Intro In the 2nd verse Paul told his readers to be “transformed by the renewing of their minds” the rest of the chapter will explain specifically what it means to have a change of mind!             After many years of…