"Wrestling With Romans" Love One Another (Chapter 12 Verses 9-21) The love with which God loved the world (John 3.16), must be found in every believer, in sincerity (v9), that is to say, without any hypocrisy. The word hypocrisy belongs to the world of the stage, an actor who perhaps wears a mask. Well genuine love …
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Notes on Romans (88)
"Wrestling With Romans" Count Your Blessings (Chapter 11 Verses 11-24) The way to consider this (vv22-24)? If you focus upon the kindness of God toward you, you who were far away from God, with no hope in the world (Ephesians 2.12), this ought to fill your heart with gratitude towards God and thus keep you from …
Notes on the Exodus (20)
"Exposing the Exodus" Preparing the Leader and People (Chapter 2 Verses 21-25) Moses learns only as he is willing to be nothing, it's then God can take him and make something of him. In naming his son v22, Moses expresses not a longing for Egypt, but for his own people, Israel. It is here in the …
Notes on Romans (74)
"Wrestling With Romans" No Separation! (Chapter 8 Verses 28-39) Are you convinced? Paul is, and he testifies so in these last two verses which we must take together (v38-39). He reaches from the depths of the earth to the highest heights of heaven, looking for something that would separate us believers from God’s love in Jesus, …
Notes On Romans (42)
"Wrestling With Romans" No Condemnation (Chapter 8 Verses 1-17) The truth that sin remains in the Christian has been established. Now Paul turns to the new life which is the believer's, through the Person and work of the Holy Spirit in them. Even if you disagree with my exposition of chapter seven, verses fourteen to …
By Yon Bonnie Banks!
By yon' bonnie banks an by yon' bonnie braes, Where the sun shone bright, there's now a misty haze; With her beautiful mountains, rivers and glens, Bit whit of her future? Ah! naebody kens! By yon bonnie banks and the skirl o' the pipes, Everyone's moanin' an' full o' their the gripes; Freedom fae England! …
Back in the Day!
I was born back in Glasgow, in the year '44, Right on the back of the second world war; The fighting continued, was then for survival, Battleships and soldiers, broken and left, to dismantle. The steel mills and shipyards, the mines and the pain, Hard-grafting men with steel in their vein; The beer and the …
