For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
Romans 1:21-23(ESV)
Merry Christmas as you celebrate with family and friends this year.
We are here today celebrating and remembering, by the grace of God, the day that God became man. When the Lord of life put on the garb of a slave, the righteous walked among the unrighteous, and the immortal put on immortality.
The Lord came among us and became God with us. He partook of our lives, environment and he did this with the knowledge of what was to come and we partook of his glory.
The angels adored him and sang glory to God in the highest and the shepherds bore witness about all they saw and heard. The stars moved to point out his birth and wise men came from the east to acknowledge the birth of the king of kings and the Lord of lords.
I wish you all a happy merry Christmas!
Rolling in Romans
February 28, 2018 by Jide Ajayi • Apostle, Epistle, Gentiles, Issues, Life, Romans • Tags: bible, bible reading •
So this year I decided to do something different with my daily reading plan. I decided to choose books of the bible that I have always wanted to understand better and spend a month or a few months reading through them.
I developed a reading plan using the built in function in Logos Bible software, but I had to chose what I wanted done each day and log it into the system for the month.
The first book that entered the list was the book of Romans. I set up the plan to allow me to read Romans 1 – 7 every day in January and Romans 8 – 16 in February.
This has been such a pleasant experience. I easily came out with some wonderful insight.
1. Romans is indeed a systematic theology letter from the Apostle to the Gentiles to the Church of the Gentiles at the heart of the empire.
2. Chapter 7 is a bad way to stop reading each section that day. It would have been better if I had incorporated Chapter 8 as a minimum or in line with the flow of theology and application, read up to chapter 11.
3. The letter was written to encourage the Gentile believers to live in the justification and the love and the confidence they have received in Christ towards one another.
4. The reason for the initial 11 chapters was to talk about the next four chapters. The doctrine and the instruction led to loving and living correctly.
5. It is a book every Christian needs to read from chapter 1 to chapter 16 every year.
6. There were a lot of folks in the Church at Rome whom by virtue of their work from afar were greatly appreciated by the Apostle.
I loved the blessing of the word in the last couple of months and from tomorrow I will start reading the letter to the Ephesians daily for the next 31 days.
One more thing I appreciated during this period is the ability of the Logos Bible software to read out the text to me verse by verse, chapter by chapter when I wanted to hear the passage out loud.