Sitting At The Foot of the Mountain

This is the second of seven woes Jesus aims at the Pharisees.  These lessons are as potent today as they were then: “Woe to you, blind guide...

Wow.  This is a Jesus you don't expect as you read the Gospels.  Talking to outcasts and sinners, going about doing good, teaching about...

Here the last part of Romans 2, and it presents the key point that Paul is trying to make: A person is not a Jew who is one only outwardly, ...

Paul is now turning up the heat and focusing on his fellow Jews who have, in the history of the world, one of the most sophisticated and hum...

Ah yes, now for the uncomfortable part.  As a religious person--a first century Jewish person or a modern evangelical, Chapter 1 of Romans w...

It would so easy to just stop at Romans 1.  We could look around with great pride and check off all the things we don't do on Paul's...

So, let's sum up the previous blog:  Paul is following the trajectory of when a people ignore God: "For although they knew God, the...