In an inspired attempt to communicate accurately his intense passion for the eternal spiritual well-being and bliss of his beloved Jewish kinsmen, Paul affirms in the strongest possible way the intense emotional distress and unceasing anguish of his heart when he writes: “I tell the…
“I tell the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit, that I have great sorrow and continual grief in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren,…
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written:‘For Your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter’” (Romans 8:35-36)….
“Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us” (Romans 8:37). Send article as PDF
“For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in…
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.’ Yet…
Visualizing God’s providence as a chain with interlocking links helps in understanding it better. In the lives of a patriarch named Joseph and an orphan named Esther, all things—envy, cruelty, imprisonment, false accusation, famine, a beauty contest, assassination plots, a sleepless night, racial/ethnic hatred—were all…
“What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?…
“For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover, whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these…
“And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose” (Romans 8:28). Send article as PDF
