Sermons

Isaiah 9=A Righteous Ruler, A Wonderful Counselor! Bible Background: The Book of Isaiah is a big, beautiful book of judgement/struggle, prophecy/poetry written covering approximately 250 years of Jewish history. Chapter 9 is one of our Christmas Eve readings, because of how it celebrates

DIGGING DEEPER INTO ROMANS 8 Bible Background: Romans 5-8 is part of a unit. Chapter 8 seems written to reassure Christians living in a hostile empire that their experiences of suffering cannot take them out of reach of God’s love. The word for “Spirit” appears 20 x’s in

Digging Deeper into Romans 6 Bible Background: Romans is Paul’s deepest letter, written to Christians who lived at the heart of the Roman empire. In chapter 5 Paul writes about how sin and death came into the world, ensnaring people. God’s free gift of grace-through the death and

DIGGING DEEPER INTO ROMANS 5:1-11 Bible Background: Paul has used the opening chapters of Romans to described how we and the world are estranged from God because of sin: “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” -3:23; and he describes God’s remedy “they are