by Stuart | 30 May 2025 | Blog
The Christian life is one of love: active, holy, and self-sacrificing. In Romans 12, the Paul provides a portrait of sincere, non-hypocritical love in every area of life: personal devotion, community life, daily interactions, and even conflict. We have already...
by Stuart | 28 May 2025 | Blog
Previously, in our consideration of the love that Paul exhorts in Romans 12:9–21, we considered the holy nature of Christian love. Love abhors evil and clings to good (v. 9). In v. 10, we see a second characteristic of Christian love: It is humble. “Love one another...
by Stuart | 16 May 2025 | Blog
In a world deeply confused about the nature of love, Romans 12:9–21 serves as a clarion call to believers in Jesus Christ to understand and live out truly Christian love. These verses contain a series of imperatives, each of which is a manifestation of the supreme...
by Stuart | 14 May 2025 | Blog
There is perhaps no book of the Bible that is more loved that Paul’s letter to Rome. Read carefully, its rich theology leaves one profoundly impacted by the glory of the gospel—as, indeed, it left Paul when he wrote it (Romans 11:33–36). Bible readers are familiar...
by Stuart | 24 Apr 2025 | Blog
In my early high school years, a friend travelled to the United States for a sporting event. He returned with many wonderful tales of the Land of Liberty, among which was reports of a product called Crystal Pepsi. At the time, PepsiCo had pulled its products from the...
