Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Mark 9. Because we are sinners, it is easy for us to tolerate the existence of sin. If someone sins against us, that can be tough to take, but if we see one person sin against another or we sin against someone else, it is […]
Mark 2
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Mark 2. In our last devotional, from Mark 1, I wrote, “…the biggest reason why Jesus healed was to demonstrate his power. The healings authenticated his message and gave a taste of the perfections of the kingdom that Jesus proclaimed. ” We see that truth again […]
Colossians 4
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Colossians 4. This chapter began by continuing to describe how being raised with Christ and setting our minds on things above (3:1-2) changes our daily lives. After applying this truth to masters (4:1), the scripture turned to our prayer lives (vv. 2-4) and how […]
Colossians 2
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Colossians 2. The church at Colossae that received this letter was not started by Paul. Colossians 1:7 plainly states that the people who received this letter from Paul had received the gospel from “… Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of […]
Ephesians 2
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Ephesians 2. This chapter of scripture lays out clearly and logically what God has done for us in Christ. First, Paul described our need: we were “dead in [y]our transgressions and sins.” We were under God’s wrath by nature (v. 3b) and because we […]
Romans 9
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Romans 9. For a letter written to the church at Rome, the book of Romans has a lot of Jewish themes in it. The chapters we’ve already read talked about Jews and Gentiles explicitly, as well as discussing the Law of Moses repeatedly. Scholars […]
Romans 8
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Romans 8. In the previous chapters we were taught much about the Law and its relationship to humanity. In chapter 7, we learned that God’s Law is great and holy; our problems with it are not with IT but with ourselves: “…the Law is spiritual […]
Romans 6
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Romans 6. In Romans 5, which we read yesterday, the Scriptures taught that the law produced sin and sin produced death (5:12-14). Sin was, in fact, multiplied by the law (v. 20) but the grace of Jesus also became more abundant where sin increased (vv. […]
Romans 5
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Romans 5 Romans 4 told us that people are declared righteous by faith and that righteousness was secured by Jesus Christ. Today in chapter 5, verse 1 told us that the result of being declared righteous by faith is that “we have peace with […]
Romans 4
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Romans 4. Romans 3, which we read yesterday, considered the central idea of Christianity–that reconciliation with God comes as a gift from God. It is not earned by those who work for it or deserved by living a righteous life. It is a gift […]