Marcos
The snowball effect (part 2)
Now here’s where my attention is really captured... Chronologically, God has told us people blew it (Ro 1.23), worshipping images of man,...
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Marcos
Dec 20, 20231 min read
A rough week
It had been a rough week. One cancelled flight. One standing in line for 3 hours at 2 a.m., to schedule a new flight. One measly hour and...
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Marcos
Dec 15, 20231 min read
The snowball effect (part 1)
In Romans 1.26-27, God is showing us the snowball effect of sin. Excuse me if, instead of musing, I climb aboard my soapbox a bit. We are...
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Marcos
Nov 30, 20231 min read
BY and THROUGH
As Paul writes about both Jews and Gentiles needing Jesus to be saved, he tells us in Romans 3.30b that, God will justify the circumcised...
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Marcos
Nov 22, 20231 min read
More than Sunday listeners
The MSV (Marcos Schultz Version) renders Romans 2.12-13 as such: All those who opt to walk their own way while not being part of the...
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Marcos
Nov 18, 20232 min read
When in Rome, think like the psalmist
Paul strings together parts of four psalms, into one single as it is written passage in Romans 3.10-18. I am not expecting you to read...
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Marcos
Nov 13, 20231 min read
The judge does what judges do
This idea that, “if God was good, He wouldn’t be sending people to hell," is taken on straightforwardly by Paul in Romans chapter three....
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Marcos
Nov 11, 20231 min read
The real deal
Our main focus these many decades has been to send and support fishers of men. Rey and Lidia have been on the field 16 years, longer than...
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Marcos
Nov 9, 20231 min read
From learner to sent
Forgive me for jumping backwards but I keep slowly reading and rereading the opening chapters of Romans. Allow me to add some background...
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Marcos
Nov 6, 20231 min read
Absolutely nice
So nice of mankind to return the favor to God. He made us in His own image; so we remade Him in ours! (They)“exchanged the glory of the...
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Marcos
Nov 3, 20231 min read
Truly unfortunate
In just 30 short words, Romans 1.21 has so much to say, and none of it is lovely. People knew God through His out-of-this-world creation!...
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Marcos
Oct 30, 20231 min read
No excuses
The creation itself preaches so eloquently Who He is, and how He is. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine...
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Marcos
Oct 26, 20231 min read
Mind games
Man... our love affair with unrighteousness and willingness to suppress the truth. As he did with Eve, Satan plays mind games with us to...
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Marcos
Oct 23, 20231 min read
Plain as day
I find it interesting that God wrote Romans, a whole book of more than 775,000 words (it took weeks for me to finish counting!), so that...
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Marcos
Oct 20, 20231 min read
Confusing?
Ever wonder why some people say the book of Romans is confusing? Maybe for things like this: In 3.1 the question is asked, what advantage...
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Marcos
Oct 18, 20231 min read
The next 15 chapters
Paul tells us in Romans 1.16-17 what the next 15 chapters will be about: Salvation, Righteousness, Faith. For I am not ashamed of the...
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Marcos
Oct 16, 20231 min read
Heir of the world
I am going to jump ahead a couple of chapter because I was stopped din my tracks by Roman 4.13 this morning. For the promise to Abraham...
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Marcos
Oct 13, 20231 min read
Fully committed
Paul says in Romans 1.14, "I am in debt to both the Greeks and the non-Greeks, to the wise and to the foolish.’ I am not sure exactly...
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Marcos
Oct 10, 20231 min read
A two way street
Paul was eager to go to Rome and meet these folks. He wanted to be a blessing to them. But he also knew he would be blessed as well...
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Marcos
Oct 7, 20231 min read
He prays for them. A lot!
I suppose that, in that day, Rome was the most famous place on the planet and there was a general sense of, “Even when I am not in Rome,...
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