Richard continues the series this week in James 1:19-27 and Matthew 7:24-27. James and Jesus both emphasize the importance of acting on the Word and not just hearing the Word. If you don’t care about those that God cares about, what its the point?
Richard starts a new series this week, “The Dispersed,” and we start in James 1. This week we read where James encourages believers to endure through the trials and to realize that evil does not come from God, rather “every good and perfect gift is from above, coming from the Father of lights.”
In our final installment of The Animals of Easter, Richard talks about the Lion (of Judah) and the role it plays. In Revelation 5, Jesus is called the Lion of Judah; however, it is not a real lion as He is still depicted as the slain lamb, but rather a title given to Him. This […]
This week we look at Christ as the Lamb of God, making the lamb the second animal of Easter in our series. Throughout the Bible, lams are seen in a sacrificial role, and Christ is no exception. He went to his own slaughter so that we can be reunited with the Father in Heaven. Richard […]
We start a new series leading up to Easter, studying the animals of Easter. We start out in Matthew 21:1-11and our first animal is the donkey. To truly understand, we first have to reset our views of donkeys from the American/Western views of stubborn animals that are hard to deal with. When we look back […]
We wrap up our study in Romans this week in Romans 15 & 16. In these final chapters, Paul again emphasizes the purpose of his writings is for the Gentiles to get to know Christ and that we are to be unified as the Church. Paul even points to the Old Testament scriptures showing that […]
We go through Romans 14 this week as we continue the When in Rome series. In the Roman church there was a division between the Old Covenant Jews and the Gentiles; the church has had divisions since the beginning and we can apply the same message to the Church today. Paul calls us to be […]
This week we are studying Romans 13 and what it means to be a good neighbor and that we are to submit to authority. In the first part of the chapter, Paul tells us that we should be submitting to the governing authority since there is no authority except that which comes from God. We […]
As we start Romans 12, we start to see how we can apply the doctrine that was revealed to us in the first eleven chapters of Romans. We start by seeing that we should be a living sacrifice and here are three different ways we should be doing it: 1. We sacrifice ourselves for Him. […]
In Romans 10, Paul again expresses how his heart breaks for his people that continue to reject Christ. They are a zealous people, passionate about their faith, but they were lacking knowledge of who Christ was and why He came. Our job as Christians is the same as it was back then; we are to […]