By Summer Stevens I love to garden. At least, I love the idea of gardening. I love it when the long-awaited Baker Creek Seed catalog arrives in the mail, and […]

By Shawn Lazar Here is the eminently readable William Barclay describing how the Lord’s Supper was originally celebrated: It is not in doubt that the Lord’s Supper began as a […]

By Bob Wilkin The Reformers argued that the message of Rome would not save. Most Protestants argued that way until the middle of the twentieth century. Billy Graham started putting […]

By Ken Yates The word “son” occurs 12 times in the Book of Romans (1:3, 4, 9; 5:10; 8:3, 14, 19, 29, 32; 9:9, 26, 27). Seven of those times […]

From The Grace New Testament Commentary (Revised Edition) By Zane Hodges Introduction: Paul’s Grief for Israel (9:1-5) 9:1-2. Paul strongly asserts that he is telling the truth about his concern […]