Alan Smith / April 29, 2012
3 COMMENTS
“Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? Much in ...
Alan Smith / March 22, 2012
1 COMMENTS
“For circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision. So, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the ...
Alan Smith / March 8, 2012
0 COMMENTS
“But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God and know his will and approve what is excellent, because you are instructed from the law; and if you are sure that ...
Alan Smith / February 28, 2012
2 COMMENTS
“For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. For it is not the hearers of the law who are ...
Alan Smith / February 8, 2012
2 COMMENTS
“Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. We ...
Alan Smith / January 24, 2012
4 COMMENTS
So far the passages I’ve tried to touch on in a single post have been reasonably brief. This one’s a little longer. Don’t tune out or skim over it. Take your time. ...
Alan Smith / January 20, 2012
2 COMMENTS
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is ...
Alan Smith / January 18, 2012
1 COMMENTS
“First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world. For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his ...
Alan Smith / January 12, 2012
3 COMMENTS
When reading a letter it seems easy to skip over the greeting. Who is the letter to? Who is the letter from? Why on earth would Paul need seven verses to tell us that? But he does take ...
Alan Smith / January 10, 2012
8 COMMENTS
I’m beginning a series of blogs that will follow me along as I read, study and meditate through Paul’s letter to the Romans. Though I’m tempted to commit to a verse by ...
