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  • Submit to Authorities | Romans 13:1-7

    Submit to Authorities | Romans 13:1-7
    2026/11/08

    Paul continues to share on consecrated life in how we relate to governing authorities. In writing to Christians navigating the challenges of living within the Roman Empire, Paul exhorts them to faithfully submit to the governing authorities for three main reasons: governments are instituted by God, governments maintain justice, and governments maintain society and order. Therefore, Christians have a civic duty to not only submit to governing authorities, but to also wisely engage with government and society so that they may carry out these mandates. In this way, Paul gives us a general framework and exhortation of our gospel duty of loving our neighbor and glorifying God through wise civic engagement.
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    29 分
  • Loving Your Enemies | Romans 12:14-21

    Loving Your Enemies | Romans 12:14-21
    2026/11/01
    Paul continues to explain what a consecrated life looks like in the arena of our relationships, but this time, he shifts the focus from relating with other believers within the church community to relating with persecutors outside the church community. The gospel calls us to love our "enemies". To do so, we ought to recognize their humanity, refuse to take up revenge, and show them undeserved kindness. We can respond in this way as we trust that God will bring perfect justice in the end, and that the only way to truly overcome evil is with good.
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    34 分
  • A Sincere Love | Romans 12:9-13

    A Sincere Love | Romans 12:9-13
    2026/10/25
    As the Apostle Paul continues to explain what it means to offer ourselves as living sacrifices to God, he now turns his attention towards community. Christians should sincerely love one another as brothers and sisters in Christ. This kind of sincere love is marked by holiness, respect, enthusiasm, endurance, and practical help. As we have been first loved by God, may we also love one another well in the family that God has called us to!
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    29 分
  • Sanctified Self-Awareness | Romans 12:3-8

    Sanctified Self-Awareness | Romans 12:3-8
    2026/10/18
    In issuing the call to rightly respond to the gospel by offering ourselves as living sacrifices, Paul highlighted the importance of being transformed by the renewal of our minds. Paul now unpacks how to rightly think of ourselves with sanctified self-awareness. Sanctified self-awareness rightly understands our identity in Christ, humbly embraces our dependence upon community, and faithfully uses our gifts to serve others.
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    36 分
  • Living Sacrifice | Romans 12:1-2

    Living Sacrifice | Romans 12:1-2
    2026/10/11
    After unpacking the new realities that stem from the gift of God's grace, Paul expounds on the practical applications of the Gospel. We respond to the Gospel of God by continually surrendering all of life to God as living sacrifices. We are formed into living sacrifices by resisting the mold of the world, renewing our minds through the truths of God, and living out the truth in practice. As we seek to become living sacrifices, we continually rest in God's grace that sustains us through it all.
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    32 分
  • God in a Box | John 5:1-18

    God in a Box | John 5:1-18
    2026/10/04
    Jesus Christ shows that the kingdom of God is now here and that he is equal to God the Father by working to heal the needy in order to give life, even on the Sabbath.
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    30 分
  • The Image of God and AI: Wisdom | Various Passages

    The Image of God and AI: Wisdom | Various Passages
    2026/09/27
    God has given us the capacity and call to exercise wisdom and discernment. And although we can obtain information through AI, we cannot obtain wisdom through AI. AI even threatens our capacity and responsibility to think critically and to think deeply. Instead, wisdom is meant to be obtained through life experiences and observations. We are also meant to obtain wisdom through a shared community - to gain wisdom from one another. And lastly, wisdom is in knowing Christ, who became to us the wisdom from God.
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    33 分
  • The Image of God and AI: Hope | Various Passages

    The Image of God and AI: Hope | Various Passages
    2026/09/20
    There is understandably a lot of fear and uncertainty regarding AI, which can produce a sense of existential hopelessness regarding humanity's future. But as people made in God's image, we need hope to survive. Thankfully, in Christ, we have a living hope that is rooted in the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that points ahead to our everlasting inheritance, and that is secured by God’s power here and now. As such, we can faithfully pursue the ordinary things that God has called us to do, and we should encourage one another with the unshakable hope that is only found in the gospel.
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    39 分