"Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ, because through Christ the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death." (Rom 8:1-2, NIV)In other words: "The Spirit gives life!" (Rom 8:10)After WWII, Nazis were...
"Those who think they can do it on their own end up obsessed with measuring their own moral muscle but never get around to exercising it in real life. Those who trust God's action in them find that God's Spirit is in them-living and breathing God!" (Rom 8:5, MSG)Have...
"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...
"The Son stands first in the line of humanity he restored. We see the original and intended shape of our lives there in him. After God made that decision of what his children should be like, he followed it up by calling people by name. After he called them by name, he...
"If God didn't hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his own Son, is there anything else he wouldn't gladly and freely do for us?" (Rom 8:32, MSG)Too often, unawaringly, we prefer to be...
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...
"I'm absolutely convinced that nothing-nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable-absolutely nothing can get between us and God's love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us." Romans 8:38-39...
