“Abba! Father!” That’s how Jesus began His prayer, as recorded in Mark 14:36 on the night he was arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane.
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This week we are going to be looking at Romans 8:14-39. This is one of my favorite passages. It was formative to my faith.
Today we live in exciting times in which we can learn a lot. Most people have some public platform open to opinion.
Some visitors who have come to celebrate the festivity of Pentecost are amazed by the fact that a group of people speak different languages in a house nearby.
The Galileans were considered poor, uneducated, and poorly prepared theologically.
Most of us experience this when we go to another country (either for vacation or business). This is because the country we go to has another language that is not ours.
I only speak two languages, Spanish and English, Spanish being my first language.
I can imagine the scene when the disciples celebrated the harvest/Pentecost.
Ḥag Shavuot/Pentecost (“Festival of the Weeks”) was originally an agricultural festival, marking the beginning of the wheat harvest.
Paul talks a lot about sin in this passage. We don’t like to talk about sin because it smacks of judgment, and we don’t like to be judged.