Closer Day By Day

Bible Passage:  Romans 11 For it was through nothing that we had done No works to boast of; no claims to righteousness Of all the people in the word, He has known us And by His grace, and *only* by His grace, we are wild olive branches grafted into Him, the olive tree bearing the [...]

Bible Passage: Romans 10 First of all, a very sincere apology for posting this soooooo late… Please try to picture me giving a heartfelt apology in the flesh and not in megabytes (if you know what I look like that is). Anyway, on to the sharing (which will be a quick and simple one)… Israel [...]

Bible Passage: Romans 9 Because of Israel’s rejection of Christ, Paul wrote this with great sorrow and grief in his heart. “For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my countrymen according to the flesh”                                                                                                                                                                                                     Verse 3 Paul had such deep feelings towards his brethren. Do we similarly have [...]

Bible Passage:  Romans 8 It’s hard to write something about Romans 8 at short notice when this chapter simply overflows with lots of lessons and reminders on how we as Christians should live. I am sure the words in this chapter will resonate to you in so many different ways.  Time and time again, I [...]

Bible Passage:  Romans 7 The Book of Romans can be hard to understand if one does not understand the Mosaic Law and its purpose. Many people, especially Christians have misunderstood Romans and went to the extreme of saying that the law and the commandments are abolished and that believe is all that matters. Some say [...]

“Are we to continue to sin that grace may abound?” “No. Be dead to sin, but be alive to God” “Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace?” “No. Be dead to sin, but be alive to God” These two questions were posted by Apostle Paul himself to make his [...]

Bible Passage:  Romans 5 Since Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden fruit, death entered the world. In fact, the Bible tells us that death is the consequence of sin. For the wages of sin is death (Rom 6:23) So, the real reason for death is sin. God defines sin as disobedience to His words. [...]

Bible Passage:  Romans 4 After reading through this chapter several times, I would like to use the following 3 verses as a basis for my sharing on what we can learn from Romans 4 today: 20 He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to [...]

Bible Passage:  Romans 3 We started off the book of Romans by saying that the Bible is honest about sin. Now, in Romans 3, we are confronted with the … Universality of Sin In the previous chapters, Paul pointed out that the Gentiles have sinned.  Now, in this chapter (vs. 1-8), he starts off by [...]

Bible Passage:  Romans 2 Imagine a scenario: “You see a brother/sister doing something which is something a Christian should not do. It could be using colourful language (and by colouful, I don’t mean the rainbow), sleeping soundly through a sermon, exhibiting a bad habit, or perhaps planning a hostile alien-like takeover of his/her neighbourhood sector. [...]