Don’t kill, commit adultery, or steal. Every one of these takes life from our neighbor. But as people of the creator, we can take the creation spirit and give life to our neighbor, their spouse, and things.
[Sunday] Well For You - The Standard - 4 Commandment
[Sunday] Slow Down - The Standard - 2&3 Commandment
[Sunday] Fear Love & Trust - The Standard - 1st Commandment
[Sunday] Just a Taste - God's Greater Story - Romans 14
[Sunday] Under Roman Roads - God's Greater Story - Romans 13
[Sunday] Molded - God's Greater Story - Romans 12
[Sunday] Loving - God's Greater Story - Romans 11 + 12
[Sunday] Grafted- God's Greater Story - Romans 11
The story is backwards. Usually the stump is wild and the grafted branches are the good, fruit-bearing kind. But here, the wild branches (usually less fruitful) are the ones which have been grafted in. Paul is telling us, the wild ones, to be humble because we have been grafted into the original tree of promise.
[Sunday] Perspective - God's Greater Story - Romans 10
[Sunday] Humble Servant - God's Greater Story - Romans 9
[Sunday] Overwhelm - God's Greater Story - Romans 8:31-39
[Sunday] Stuck in the Stone - God's Greater Story - Romans 8b
[Sunday] Slave to Son- God's Greater Story - Romans 8
Paul makes a curious point prior to chapter 8 here. He says we are no longer a slave to sin but a slave to Christ. But where is the freedom in that? It sounds like we have exchanged one slavery for another, but that was just a stopgap point. For Paul keeps moving forward and says we are not a slave to have been made into a child of God.