Tag Archives: faith

Saul and the Spread of the Gospel

During the early days of the church the movement of the Gospel of Christ appears to have been confined to the city of Jerusalem and its surrounding area. I would like to ask you just how a small sect of the Jewish community that had made Jesus Christ their Lord manage to grow from aContinue reading “Saul and the Spread of the Gospel”

Romans Chapter 4

Here is my Possible Expanded Literal for Romans Chapter 4.  I hope it blesses you.  But again this is a reminder that this is simply my notes in paragraph form. This is not a literal word for translation or even really a paraphrasing.  What I have tried to do put my notes regarding the contextContinue reading “Romans Chapter 4”

Not of Works

Every epistle that Paul wrote except one starts with some variation of the phrase, “I thank my God always on your behalf.”  Paul expressed his thankfulness even for the Corinthian church which was waist deep in sin.  Yet Paul made no such statement regarding the Galatian church. They appear to have done something that wasContinue reading “Not of Works”

Works vs. Law James 1:25

But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. The book of James often seems at first to be at odds with the teachings of Paul.  Where Paul continually reminds us thatContinue reading “Works vs. Law James 1:25”

When are you living? A Conversation with God

What follows is a conversation I had in my spirit with God. As Keith Moore often says, “I don’t mean I heard an audible voice, it just welled up inside of me.” I was just sitting there listening to teaching and think “yeah, yeah this is great stuff,” when the preacher quoted Isaiah 53:5 IsaiahContinue reading “When are you living? A Conversation with God”

The Greatest of These

As we finish up our study on I Corinthians 13 and prepare to go into the practical application of three specific manifestations of the “gifts of the spirit” in Chapter 14 we begin to see just how important and how powerful lover really is. I Corinthians 13:13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three;Continue reading “The Greatest of These”

I Corinthians 12:3 – 6

Last week we began looking at the record in I Corinthians 12 regarding the “things of the spirit” or “spiritual things.” We saw that we were not to be ignorant regarding them and that it was possible to be misled regarding them. One way we could be ignorant about them was to allow ourselves toContinue reading “I Corinthians 12:3 – 6”

Conformed or Tansformed?

Last week I shared about the renewed mind. This week I want to look at process of the renewed mind in view of the verse that we looked at last week, Romans 12:2. Romans 12:2; And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind; that ye mayContinue reading “Conformed or Tansformed?”