Here’s how the study works: Read the chapter mentioned in the heading several times during the week and share any words, thoughts, verses that stood out to you. Having a week for a chapter creates the opportunity to reread it several times and make additional comments as you feel inclined as well as make comments on other people’s insights.
I like the way Paul describes a Christian as being “in Christ” v.7 which in our day, when the word “Christian” has been diluted and polluted, is also a good way of describing ourselves.
One final comment I would like to make about Romans is in relation to the Jews. Paul makes it clear that God isn’t finished with the Jews (Romans 10, 11 etc.), which makes Genesis 12:2-3 (… I will bless those who bless you …) still important for us today. I want to be part of a nation that blesses Israel and at the moment this is the case. In a nutshell my politics are: I’m happy for the Australian government to support the American government as long as the American government continues to support Israel. This might explain why I’m not overly upset with the governments of either country at the moment. Since to live with God’s blessing is a higher priority for me than some of the other stuff that’s happening; or not happening.
So thank you to all who have contributed to this study on Romans and also to any lurkers. I really enjoy studying the Bible like this and hope we can do it again though I do think it would be good for someone else to take a turn at being the host.
I like the way Paul describes a Christian as being “in Christ” v.7 which in our day, when the word “Christian” has been diluted and polluted, is also a good way of describing ourselves.
One final comment I would like to make about Romans is in relation to the Jews. Paul makes it clear that God isn’t finished with the Jews (Romans 10, 11 etc.), which makes Genesis 12:2-3 (… I will bless those who bless you …) still important for us today. I want to be part of a nation that blesses Israel and at the moment this is the case. In a nutshell my politics are: I’m happy for the Australian government to support the American government as long as the American government continues to support Israel. This might explain why I’m not overly upset with the governments of either country at the moment. Since to live with God’s blessing is a higher priority for me than some of the other stuff that’s happening; or not happening.
So thank you to all who have contributed to this study on Romans and also to any lurkers. I really enjoy studying the Bible like this and hope we can do it again though I do think it would be good for someone else to take a turn at being the host.
thanks for hosting
thanks for hosting
i enjoy how many woman paul packs into this chapter. this man who supposedly has written the most mysoginistic writings in the new testament! i’m not going into that here, but i would think the amount of women he thanks and the prominence he gives them in the list, would show that paul did not feel about women, or women ministering, the way many people think he did.
and, yes. thanks for letting us trash your place again.
i am certainly up for another study, but i need a break of at least a week or more. things in my physical realm are coming to a head (in a good way) and i need to be available to them to do what needs to be done.
i will even host seeing as how whizzle dizzle? is dead.
ajeupovq (good one)
i enjoy how many woman paul packs into this chapter. this man who supposedly has written the most mysoginistic writings in the new testament! i’m not going into that here, but i would think the amount of women he thanks and the prominence he gives them in the list, would show that paul did not feel about women, or women ministering, the way many people think he did.
and, yes. thanks for letting us trash your place again.
i am certainly up for another study, but i need a break of at least a week or more. things in my physical realm are coming to a head (in a good way) and i need to be available to them to do what needs to be done.
i will even host seeing as how whizzle dizzle? is dead.
ajeupovq (good one)
i was thinking something OT. any thoughts or objections?
i was thinking something OT. any thoughts or objections?
I’ll be happy with whatever you choose. OT is fine.
I’ll be happy with whatever you choose. OT is fine.
i was thinking genesis, judges, or isaiah.
fwngmddw(are you kidding me?)
i was thinking genesis, judges, or isaiah.
fwngmddw(are you kidding me?)
I have found that God is able to speak to me even through the bits of the Bible that I had previously thought irrelevant. So any of those would be fine.
I have found that God is able to speak to me even through the bits of the Bible that I had previously thought irrelevant. So any of those would be fine.
I am sorry I missed this but my friend was here and we had our own little bible study around my kitchen table the four days she was here. It was wonderful. I enjoyed conversing with her and exchanging thoughts.
I am sorry I missed this but my friend was here and we had our own little bible study around my kitchen table the four days she was here. It was wonderful. I enjoyed conversing with her and exchanging thoughts.
Thanks for doing this by the way. I enjoyed the few times I was here.
Thanks for doing this by the way. I enjoyed the few times I was here.
alright. i think i have decided on 1 corinthians. given how much we have been noticing and looking at freedom, i think this will actually be a good study as it is a letter from paul to a church that had actually used their freedom in a way that he considered to be too far. so it would be good, i think, to get the temperance to this. and seeing as how i haven’t read it in a couple of years (i’ve been in the OT in my personal study since ’04), i expect to have my hair blown back.
give me a day or two, and it’ll be up.
alright. i think i have decided on 1 corinthians. given how much we have been noticing and looking at freedom, i think this will actually be a good study as it is a letter from paul to a church that had actually used their freedom in a way that he considered to be too far. so it would be good, i think, to get the temperance to this. and seeing as how i haven’t read it in a couple of years (i’ve been in the OT in my personal study since ’04), i expect to have my hair blown back.
give me a day or two, and it’ll be up.
Sounds great. Looking forward to it.
Sounds great. Looking forward to it.
v.19-20 I want you to be wise about what is good, and innocent about what is evil. The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet.
Peace crushes Satan. Hang onto peace in the difficult times as this will defeat the devil. God's promise has always been to crush the devil's head.
Genesis 3:15 (God speaking to the serpent):
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.
v.19-20 I want you to be wise about what is good, and innocent about what is evil. The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet.
Peace crushes Satan. Hang onto peace in the difficult times as this will defeat the devil. God's promise has always been to crush the devil's head.
Genesis 3:15 (God speaking to the serpent):
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
v.7 Greet Andronicus and Junia, my fellow Jews who have been in prison with me. They are outstanding among the apostles, and they were in Christ before I was.
Paul mentions many women in this chapter who played significant roles in the church, including Junia – an apostle.
v.7 Greet Andronicus and Junia, my fellow Jews who have been in prison with me. They are outstanding among the apostles, and they were in Christ before I was.
Paul mentions many women in this chapter who played significant roles in the church, including Junia – an apostle.
It is curious that Paul greets so many people by name when he hadn’t been to Rome yet. However travel was fairly easy in Paul’s day. Priscilla and Aquila obviously moved around quite a bit from what we read of them in Acts and elsewhere. “There he met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome” (Acts 18:2). Possibly others had also left Rome but were now back there.
It would also suggest Paul was a friendly person who remembered people’s names!
It is curious that Paul greets so many people by name when he hadn’t been to Rome yet. However travel was fairly easy in Paul’s day. Priscilla and Aquila obviously moved around quite a bit from what we read of them in Acts and elsewhere. “There he met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome” (Acts 18:2). Possibly others had also left Rome but were now back there.
It would also suggest Paul was a friendly person who remembered people’s names!
From the Message:
v.25 All of our praise rises to the One who is strong enough to make you strong, exactly as preached in Jesus Christ, precisely as revealed in the mystery kept secret for so long but now an open book through the prophetic Scriptures.
"Strong enough to make you strong." We can rest in God who gives us strength.
From the Message:
v.25 All of our praise rises to the One who is strong enough to make you strong, exactly as preached in Jesus Christ, precisely as revealed in the mystery kept secret for so long but now an open book through the prophetic Scriptures.
"Strong enough to make you strong." We can rest in God who gives us strength.
v.4 They risked their lives for me. Not only I but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.
So many underwent great trials for their faith. Still today we are grateful for their example and for the encouragement they are to us to persevere in our faith.
v.4 They risked their lives for me. Not only I but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.
So many underwent great trials for their faith. Still today we are grateful for their example and for the encouragement they are to us to persevere in our faith.