"Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned . . . But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God's...
"The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace." (Rom 8:6, NIV2)The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God. Why? Because though we are unaware of it, we have treaded into the enemy's territory and have become...
Barry Newton recently reported how a woman “recounted how she had been walking along a fence line when she came upon a sheep hopelessly ensnared by barbed wire. As she approached the pitiful creature and began assisting it, the ewe frantically thrashed, kicked and...
"We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin." (Rom 7:14, NIV2)This is the reality of many amongst us. As God's Spirit doesn't reside in them, they realize that they are in no way spiritual. Instead, they wonder: "I do not...
"For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God...
In general, people hunger for real freedom. Take, for example, Peter Fetcher and his friend Helmut Kulbeik. Their dream was to escape East Germany and make it to the West in order to experience freedom.The Berlin wall had just been finished, but it still had numerous...
"When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi." (Matt 2:16, NIV2)King Herod...