Yearly Archives: 2023

A Living Sacrifice (Romans 12)

March 15, 2023 / Michael Haverkamp

While the principal theme of Saint Paul’s letter to the Romans is that we are saved from our sins through faith in Jesus Christ, Paul urges his audience to live out their faith. In chapters 12 through 14, he demonstrates how Christians ought to live as disciples of Jesus. These

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All Israel Will Be Saved (Romans 11)

February 28, 2023 / Michael Haverkamp

Hence I ask, did they [the Israelites] stumble so as to fall? Of course not! But through their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make them jealous. Now if their transgression is enrichment for the world, and if their diminished number is enrichment for the Gentiles, how

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He Has Mercy Upon Whom He Wills (Romans 9)

February 14, 2023 / Michael Haverkamp

The ninth chapter of Paul’s letter to the Romans is a challenging one. He begins by lamenting that his fellow Israelites have in the main rejected Christ, saying he has “great sorrow and constant anguish in his heart” (Romans 9:2). Yet Paul understands that God’s ways are mysterious and inscrutable

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Nothing can separate us (Romans 8)

January 31, 2023 / Michael Haverkamp

“We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” (Romans 8:28) Paul can pack a lot of punch and lot insight into one verse of his letters. He does it often in his letter to the Romans, not

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Led by the Spirit (Romans 8)

January 17, 2023 / Michael Haverkamp

Paul’s primary theme in Romans is that we are saved through faith in Jesus. Another major theme, implied by the first, is that to believe in Jesus is to take on a whole new way of life. Hence, now there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

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Call on the Name of the Lord (Romans 6)

January 4, 2023 / Michael Haverkamp

If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For one believes with the heart and so is justified, and one confesses with the mouth and so is saved. For the scripture says, “No one

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