Beloved, if you knew the week I just had and the one I’m about to have, you would understand why I’m “revisiting” these One-a-Days from last year. Strangely, God’s Word has not gotten any less powerful or any less timely. … Continue reading
Category Archives: One-a-Day
…neither height nor depth nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 8:39). Of course there’s nothing in the physical world that can … Continue reading
…neither the present nor the future… (Romans 8:38c). Neither the present… when I’m distracted and frazzled and busy and sad and lonely and frightened and desperate and insecure and so completely overwhelmed that I barely have time to read … Continue reading
…neither angels nor demons… (Romans 8:38b) I would love to see into the spiritual world. When I read of Daniel’s visions, or John the Apostle’s, I get hungry, wondering what it will really be like to see into that world. … Continue reading
For I am convinced that neither death nor life… (Romans 8:38a) If I get squished by a narcoleptic cement truck driver on my way to work, I will still belong to God. In fact, I will immediately be ushered into … Continue reading
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us (Romans 8:37). Some days I feel like a conqueror; some days I feel like the conquered. The “things” that Paul mentions—persecution, famine, peril, sword, and … Continue reading
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword? (Romans 8:35) In answer to the above question: No one. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. … Continue reading
Christ Jesus, who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us (Romans 8:34b). He died in darkness. He rose as the Light. He died as a sacrifice. … Continue reading
Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who is he that condemns? (Romans 8:33-34a). Usually it’s me. For the most part, I am the one who brings charges against me; I … Continue reading
He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? (Romans 8:32). I have a son. I love him more than my own … Continue reading