Romans 9:1–13 ( Listen ) God’s Sovereign Choice 9:1 I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit— 2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. 3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, 1 my kinsmen according to the flesh. 4 They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises. 5 To them be...
Feb 20, 2022•33 min
Romans 8:31–39 ( Listen ) God’s Everlasting Love 31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be 1 against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? 33 Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. 2 35 Who sh...
Feb 13, 2022•31 min
Romans 8:28 ( Listen ) 28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, 1 for those who are called according to his purpose. Footnotes [1] 8:28 Some manuscripts God works all things together for good , or God works in all things for the good ( ESV )
Feb 06, 2022•26 min
Care, Counseling, & Recovery Resources We’re so thankful for God’s faithfulness to meet us in and heal our brokenness. As a church, we want you to know that we desire to come alongside you and help in any way we can - you are not alone. If you or someone you love is struggling with an ongoing addiction or need counseling as you navigate life’s difficulties, we would love to pray for you and get you connected to the help you need. You can always send a message to a member of our Care Ministry...
Jan 30, 2022•48 min
Romans 8:16–25 ( Listen ) 16 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him. Future Glory 18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. 19 For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. 20 For the creatio...
Jan 23, 2022•33 min
Romans 8:11–17 ( Listen ) 11 If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus 1 from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you. Heirs with Christ 12 So then, brothers, 2 we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. 13 For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14 For all who are led by the Spirit of G...
Jan 16, 2022•31 min
Romans 8:1–11 ( Listen ) Life in the Spirit 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 1 2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you 2 free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. 3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, 3 he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according t...
Jan 09, 2022•35 min
Zephaniah 3 ( Listen ) Judgment on Jerusalem and the Nations 3:1 Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled, the oppressing city! 2 She listens to no voice; she accepts no correction. She does not trust in the LORD; she does not draw near to her God. 3 Her officials within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves that leave nothing till the morning. 4 Her prophets are fickle, treacherous men; her priests profane what is holy; they do violence to the law. 5 The LORD within her is righte...
Dec 12, 2021•30 min
Matthew 1:18–25 ( Listen ) The Birth of Jesus Christ 18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ 1 took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed 2 to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. 19 And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly. 20 But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to tak...
Dec 05, 2021•33 min
Isaiah 7:1–14 ( Listen ) Isaiah Sent to King Ahaz 7:1 In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah the king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but could not yet mount an attack against it. 2 When the house of David was told, “Syria is in league with 1 Ephraim,” the heart of Ahaz 2 and the heart of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake before the wind. 3 And the LORD said to Isaiah, “Go o...
Nov 28, 2021•31 min
Romans 7:7–25 ( Listen ) The Law and Sin 7 What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.” 8 But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead. 9 I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died. 10 ...
Nov 21, 2021•27 min
2 Timothy 4:1–18 ( Listen ) Preach the Word 4:1 I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: 2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. 3 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound 1 teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 4 and will turn away from...
Nov 14, 2021•32 min
Romans 7:1–6 ( Listen ) Released from the Law 7:1 Or do you not know, brothers 1 —for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? 2 For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. 2 3 Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marrie...
Nov 07, 2021•32 min
Romans 6:19–23 ( Listen ) 19 I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification. 20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death...
Oct 31, 2021•23 min
Romans 6:6–22 ( Listen ) 6 We know that our old self 1 was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. 7 For one who has died has been set free 2 from sin. 8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9 We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. 10 For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he l...
Oct 24, 2021•33 min
Romans 6:1–12 ( Listen ) Dead to Sin, Alive to God 6:1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? 3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united...
Oct 17, 2021•30 min
Romans 5:12–21 ( Listen ) Death in Adam, Life in Christ 12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men 1 because all sinned— 13 for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. 14 Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come. 15 But the free gift is not like the trespas...
Oct 10, 2021•33 min
Romans 5:6–11 ( Listen ) 6 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— 8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. 10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of hi...
Oct 04, 2021•31 min
Romans 5:1–5 ( Listen ) Peace with God Through Faith 5:1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we 1 have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Through him we have also obtained access by faith 2 into this grace in which we stand, and we 3 rejoice 4 in hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and hope does not put us to shame, beca...
Sep 27, 2021•30 min
Romans 4:11–25 ( Listen ) 11 He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well, 12 and to make him the father of the circumcised who are not merely circumcised but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised. The Promise Realized Thr...
Sep 20, 2021•34 min
Romans 3:27–4:10 ( Listen ) 27 Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith. 28 For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law. 29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, 30 since God is one—who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith. 31 Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we u...
Sep 13, 2021•34 min
Ephesians 4:4–16 ( Listen ) 4 There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. 7 But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift. 8 Therefore it says, “When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men.” 1 9 (In saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descend...
Sep 06, 2021•33 min
Romans 3:21–26 ( Listen ) The Righteousness of God Through Faith 21 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— 22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by ...
Aug 30, 2021•34 min
Romans 3:21–26 ( Listen ) The Righteousness of God Through Faith 21 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— 22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by ...
Aug 22, 2021•29 min
Romans 3:19–26 ( Listen ) 19 Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. 20 For by works of the law no human being 1 will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin. The Righteousness of God Through Faith 21 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— 22 the righ...
Aug 16, 2021•33 min
Exodus 20:17 ( Listen ) 17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.” ( ESV )
Aug 09, 2021•30 min
Exodus 20:16 ( Listen ) 16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. ( ESV )
Aug 01, 2021•30 min
Exodus 20:15 ( Listen ) 15 “You shall not steal. ( ESV )
Jul 25, 2021•28 min
Exodus 20:13 ( Listen ) 13 “You shall not murder. 1 Footnotes [1] 20:13 The Hebrew word also covers causing human death through carelessness or negligence ( ESV ) Matthew 5:21–22 ( Listen ) Anger 21 “You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’ 22 But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother 1 will be liable to judgment; whoever insults 2 his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You f...
Jul 18, 2021•36 min
Exodus 20:13 ( Listen ) 13 “You shall not murder. 1 Footnotes [1] 20:13 The Hebrew word also covers causing human death through carelessness or negligence ( ESV )
Jul 11, 2021•32 min
