This seems pretty straightforward. Going back to my earliest memories as a child, if I did what was right and listened to my parents, everything was fine. It was when I didn't do the right things that...  Read More

The same judgment we use on others is what gets used when judging us. We need to let that sink in.Consider what Paul says when he states that God, in His justice, will punish these things. God is just...  Read More

I think we are here.  Some of the things I read about in the news seem to get more bizarre by the day. Things appear to be flipped upside down, and standards of morality that once seemed obvious are i...  Read More

Sin is sin, no matter what form it takes, but it seems these days that some view certain sins as more allowable than others. That’s like saying it’s okay to have a little cancer in your body. Paul sta...  Read More

It is never a good career move to get God angry. Paul says that God gets angry with those who suppress the truth by their wickedness. Are there people who do this? Yes! What makes error so dangerous i...  Read More

God called and appointed Paul, telling him that He was sending him to the Gentiles—a commission Paul took seriously. Here we see that Paul carried a burden to reach both the civilized and uncivilized ...  Read More

Little did Paul know that his prayer to come see them would be answered some three or four years after he wrote this letter—just not in the way he probably imagined. He would eventually arrive in Rome...  Read More

This is Paul’s introductory letter to a church of believers in Rome whom he had not yet visited at the time of its writing, near the end of his third missionary journey around A.D. 56–57. However, he ...  Read More

At first, I thought Paul may have had this meeting wherever the Jewish leaders normally congregated, but then I remembered that Paul was under house arrest, so it makes sense that they had to come to ...  Read More

Paul gives us a little tidbit of information here as to why he appealed his case to Caesar. The Jewish leaders who were present during his trial before Governor Festus were protesting the fact that Fe...  Read More

So Paul was on Malta for three months. That was three months of ministry, and I am sure Paul made the most of that time. Thankfully, he was able to have some freedom and obviously was not considered a...  Read More

It is so neat to see how this “detour,” brought about by such unfortunate circumstances, brought life to others. And how do we know this detour wasn’t in the plan all along? Whether it was or it wasn’...  Read More