Closer Day By Day

Bible Passage:  Romans 16 LIVING TESTIMONIES Rom 16:1-16, 21-23 mentions quite a number of people who came to believe in Jesus and, most importantly, laboured much for the Lord. Some of them supported Paul and the apostles in their work of evangelism, some opened up their houses as places of worship, some showed hospitality and [...]

Bible Passage:  Romans 15 Paul continues to bring forth the key theme of righteousness in this chapter – i.e. how the righteousness of Christ ought to be aptly reflected in our lives as Christian believers. We see a similar theme in the preceding chapters (12-14), and the following important teachings were shared in the blog: [...]

The earliest reference to the prefiguration of the One True Church of God is the ark that God commanded Noah to build. (Genesis 6) So what do we see in the ark when God shut the one and only door, and when the windows of heaven started to pour water on the face of the [...]

Bible Passage:  Romans 13 The Spiritual Meeting has just passed us by and already, the zeal and faith stirred up during the weekend is starting to be a distant memory already. So it is good that we are reading Romans 13 today as a wake up call has been issued! And do this, knowing the time, [...]

Bible Passage:  Romans 12 The first couple of verses is probably one of the Bible’s best known passages – and deservedly so.  This is an excellent reminder of the essence of the believer’s response to God’s grace. When you read the first word of Chapter 12, it says, “Therefore”. It is like Paul gathering all [...]

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 [...]