Build Your Life on the Mercies of God …
Of all the things Paul could have chosen as the foundation of your life in Christ, he picks the mercies of God. Why?
Romans 12
Present Your Bodies As a Living Sacrifice to God …
We were given bodies to make the glory of God more visible, especially through merciful behavior.
Do Not Be Conformed to This World …
The Indigenous and Pilgrim Principle of Christian Living
What is the balance between being in the world and yet not of the world?
Discerning the Will of God Concerning Homosexuality and Marriage …
What is wrong with homosexual marriage? Is it possible to believe this and still love homosexual people?
The Renewed Mind and How to Have It …
Any effort to renew our minds must follow the Holy Spirit's initiatives and enablings.
What Is the Will of God and How Do We Know It? …
Paul doesn't want us to try ferreting out the secret will of God that he plans to do, but discern the revealed will of God that we ought to do.
Using Our Gifts in Proportion to Our Faith, Part 1 …
The Gift of Prophecy
Using Our Gifts in Proportion to Our Faith, Part 2 …
Helping People with All Your Heart by Grace through Faith
Why the Gift of Prophecy Is Not the Usual Way of Knowing God's Will …
God doesn't tell us to forsake thinking and just listen for messages. He tells us to be changed in the way we think.
Sound Judgment, One Body, Several Parts …
Why doesn't God give everyone the same faith and gifts?
All of Life as Worship …
God is worshiped when we seek to express and increase our satisfaction in all that he is for us in Jesus Christ.
Let Love Be Genuine …
You can be a liberal hypocrite, and you can be fundamentalist hypocrite. But love is not that way.
Abhor What Is Evil; Hold Fast to What Is Good …
There is such a thing as objective good and evil outside ourselves.
When Is It Right to Repay Evil with Pain? …
Does God ever intend for his justice—his right to punish wrong—to be shared with men?
Strategic Hospitality …
Our homes and apartments should stand constantly ready for strategic hospitality—a readiness to welcome people who don't ordinarily live there.
Love One Another with Tender Affection …
God intends for us not merely to do to others as we would have them do to us, but he wants us to feel toward other believers a certain way.
Be Strong and Fervent in Spirit in the Cause of Truth and Life …
Sanctity of Life Sunday
Boredom with Christ is blindness. Open your eyes and let him inspire in you a new passion for the cause of life.
Boiling for Christ …
When it comes to serving Christ, half-heartedness, lukewarmness, laziness, sluggishness, and slothfulness are utterly inappropriate.
The Fruit of Hope: Joy …
Without Christian hope my life and your life cannot yield Christian joy or love or boldness or endurance.
Lavish Giving, Loving Guests, Living Christ …
Christ’s promise to meet all of our needs is what frees us from fear and greed and enables us to joyfully share with others.
Bless Those Who Persecute You …
If you see and savor mercy in Christ, you will love being merciful.
Battling the Unbelief of Bitterness …
Anger is very dangerous. If it takes root in your heart and becomes a grudge or an unforgiving spirit, it can destroy you.
God's Wrath: "Vengeance Is Mine, I Will Repay," Says the Lord …
We can say at least four things about the wrath of God that will fall on human beings at the final judgment.
The Present Effects of Trembling at the Wrath of God …
Believing that God is furious against sin produces a good fear that transforms everything in life.
Christ Overcame Evil with Good—Do the Same …
Palm Sunday
Romans 13
Romans 14
How to Welcome a Weak Brother …
How can a church hold together when some of its members are so different from one another?
Each One Should Be Fully Convinced in His Own Mind …
There are a hundred things we can disagree on in which both convictions can be done to the glory of God.
Is There a “Lord’s Day”? …
Setting apart a day of rest testifies to a self-reliant world that our work does not save or define us, Christ does.
Jesus Is Precious Because Through Him We Become Authentic …
We don't have a deep sense of peace and fulfillment when we have successfully deluded everybody about who we really are or what we really feel or think. There is a deep (and I believe God-given) longing to be authentic, not to be hypocrites.
The Relationship Between Diversified Domestic Ministries and Frontier Missions …
The ultimate goal of the church is to reflect and display the glory and worth of God. Missions is a means, not an end.
We Will All Stand Before the Judgment of God …
Love your brother and help him get to heaven, instead of judging him and making it harder.
Do Not Destroy the Work of God …
Faith is what really matters in Christian behavior, not just whether you accomplish certain things or abstain from others.
The Kingdom of God is Righteousness and Peace and Joy in the Holy Spirit …
The kingdom produces more than Christian liberty. It governs how you use your liberty too.
Whatever Is Not from Faith Is Sin …
Anything, absolutely any act or attitude which is owing to a lack of trust in God is sin, no matter how moral it may appear to men. God looks on the heart.
Romans 15
Use the Inspired Scriptures to Rejoice in Hope …
If we give ourselves daily to the word of God, our hope and joy will be made unshakably strong—even in suffering.
Diversity in God-Centered Worship …
Unfolding Bethlehem's Fresh Initiative #4
The abiding foundation of our corporate worship is God-centeredness.
How Can I Keep on Hoping? The Scriptures! …
The strength to endure comes from the hope before us. And the hope before us comes from the Scriptures.
Let All the Peoples Praise Him …
Education for Exultation: Among the Nations
Mercy to the Nations …
Missions Week
Zeal for the glory of the Lord is zeal for the glory of his mercy or it isn't missionary zeal—and it isn't holy zeal.
How the Spirit Sanctifies …
Sanctification is obeying the Commander-in-Chief. Sanctification is a wartime word.
By Signs and Wonders: Where Christ Has Not Been Named …
In Paul's ministry, signs and wonders functioned to confirm the gospel. Should we be expecting the same miraculous confirmations of our witnessing today?
A Pastor's Offering to God of Holy People …
What is the pastor's calling? What does this mean for the rest of the church?
Paul's Ambition and Bethlehem's Mission …
Unpacking the Master Planning Team Document
Holy Ambition: to Preach Where Christ Has Not Been Named …
What is your life's ambition? How can you know if it is holy?
A Passion for the Supremacy of Christ—Where He Is Not Named …
What convictions drive world missions at Bethlehem Baptist Church?
Joy+Debt = A Two-Thousand-Mile Detour to Jerusalem …
Why did Paul make another trip to Jerusalem when he expressly wanted to visit the saints in Rome?
Resting and Wrestling for the Cause of Christ—Together …
Christian fellowship cuts our burdens in half and doubles our joy.
Incentives to Strive in Prayer …
God calls us from time to time, and some of us as a kind of vocation, to strive—to struggle, and wrestle, and persist, and prevail in prayer.
Prayer Changes People's Wills …
Don't neglect the amazing influence you have in the world through prayer.
Romans 16
Commending and Welcoming Radical Risk-Takers for Christ …
What can we learn from how Paul sends his greetings?
Carry My Love to My Beloved …
Christians are precious to each other when they feel deeply what they have been saved from.
Watch Out for Those Who Lead You Away from the Truth …
Watch out for smooth-talking pastors, no matter how popular, if they do not manifestly prize the whole counsel of God.
The God of Peace Will Soon Crush Satan Under Your Feet …
Satan gets one mention in the book of Romans just to remind us: he's doomed.
God Strengthens Us by the Gospel …
God uses his gospel to strengthen believers so that they will persevere in faith and draw all attention to his glory.
Command of God: the Obedience of Faith …
How does justifying faith manifest itself in the life of a believer?
The Great Work of the Only Wise God …
God is infinitely able to know the best possible outcome of any situation and then achieve it.
To Him Be Glory Forevermore …
What is God's glory, and what is its role throughout the book of Romans?
Jesus Christ in the Book of Romans …
A Final Prayer
John Piper preaches a prayer as his final sermon in the book of Romans.
