SPCC Blog tagged 'Romans'

Babies who die and the goodness of God

bryan@spcc-cma.org — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:00:00 +0100

Tonight in Jim's sermon on Romans 5:12-21 we hit a passage of scripture that became precious to me a few years ago. While this is a fairly complicated passage of scripture, it is nonetheless worth digging into.

As John Piper once said, "If you rake, all you get are leaves. But if you dig, you just might find diamonds." This has been my experience with this passage. Jim did an excellent job of explaining the core concept: our main issue is not th [...]

Reflections on this week's Sermon--wrath.

bryan@spcc-cma.org — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:00:00 +0100

This past weekend, Tim talked in the message about how a proper understanding of the wrath of God is necessary for an appropriate understanding of the love of God. Today I was reading an exerpt from a sermon by 16th century preacher Jonathan Edwards entitled "The Excellency of Christ" . Here is what he said...

"There meet in Jesus Christ, infinite justice and infinite grace.

"As Christ is a divine person, he is infinitely holy and ju [...]

Follow-up to Tim's Sermon

bryan@spcc-cma.org — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:00:00 +0100

Here is a video that one of you sent me as a follow-up to Tim's sermon on the wrath of God this weekend. In it, John Piper talks about the practical implications of knowing about the wrath of God for things like dealing with your spouse.

http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=5c10e873bf3842afb46a

Romans sermons, Same-sex rights in Washington, and coincidence.

bryan@spcc-cma.org — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:00:00 +0100

I don't believe in coincidence. And I find it interesting that during the same perdiod of time the Washington State Legislature passes a bill to extend 170 new rights to same-sex couples, we are hitting Romans 1:24-32. Could God be instructing us at to what we ought to believe about this issue at the very time it parades through the media?

Why I cherish and despise community

bryan@spcc-cma.org — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:00:00 +0100

In Romans chapter 7, Paul talks about the division he feels in himself as a Christian. At one point he says (vv 22-23), "For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members."

On one hand there is his mind that delights in the Word, but his flesh yearns to sin. I was thinking about this this evening when thinking about the community that [...]

Faith ALONE in context: Get Catholic first.

bryan@spcc-cma.org — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:00:00 +0100

I read a short chapter from Preaching the Cross last night. In it, one of the authors (R.C. Sproul) talks about the misunderstanding we have of the idea that faith alone saves us. It is an important misunderstanding to be mindful of, especially in our convenient American Christianity. Sproul points out in this chapter that the theological concept of "faith alone" has its roots in the Reformation of the 15oo's. Martin Luther and others were responding to the Roman Catholic ide [...]