Daily Romans etc in 2024

5-days-a-week through Romans and the letters Paul wrote from Rome in 2024 Our opening prayer for this week: Jesus, I my cross have taken, all to leave and follow you. Destitute, despised, forsaken, You on earth once suffered, too. Perish every fond ambition, all I’ve sought or hoped or known; Yet how rich is my condition! God and heaven are still my own. Let the world despise and leave me, they have left my Savior, too. Human hearts and looks deceive me; You are not, like them, untrue. And while you shall smile upon me, God of wisdom, love and might, Foes may hate and friends disown me— show your face and all is bright. Go, then, earthly fame and treasure! Come, disaster, scorn and pain! In your service, pain is pleasure; with your favor, loss is gain. I have called you, “Abba, Father”; you my all in all shall be. Storms may howl, and clouds may gather; all must work for good to me. Man may trouble and distress me; ’twill but drive me to your breast. Life with trials hard may press me;...

5-days-a-week through Romans and the letters Paul wrote from Rome in 2024 Our opening prayer for this week: Jesus, I my cross have taken, all to leave and follow you. Destitute, despised, forsaken, You on earth once suffered, too. Perish every fond ambition, all I’ve sought or hoped or known; Yet how rich is my condition! God and heaven are still my own. Let the world despise and leave me, they have left my Savior, too. Human hearts and looks deceive me; You are not, like them, untrue. And while you shall smile upon me, God of wisdom, love and might, Foes may hate and friends disown me— show your face and all is bright. Go, then, earthly fame and treasure! Come, disaster, scorn and pain! In your service, pain is pleasure; with your favor, loss is gain. I have called you, “Abba, Father”; you my all in all shall be. Storms may howl, and clouds may gather; all must work for good to me. Man may trouble and distress me; ’twill but drive me to your breast. Life with trials hard may press me;...

5-days-a-week through Romans and the letters Paul wrote from Rome in 2024 Our opening prayer for this week: Jesus, I my cross have taken, all to leave and follow you. Destitute, despised, forsaken, You on earth once suffered, too. Perish every fond ambition, all I’ve sought or hoped or known; Yet how rich is my condition! God and heaven are still my own. Let the world despise and leave me, they have left my Savior, too. Human hearts and looks deceive me; You are not, like them, untrue. And while you shall smile upon me, God of wisdom, love and might, Foes may hate and friends disown me— show your face and all is bright. Go, then, earthly fame and treasure! Come, disaster, scorn and pain! In your service, pain is pleasure; with your favor, loss is gain. I have called you, “Abba, Father”; you my all in all shall be. Storms may howl, and clouds may gather; all must work for good to me. Man may trouble and distress me; ’twill but drive me to your breast. Life with trials hard may press me;...

   5-days-a-week through Romans and the letters Paul wrote from Rome in 2024 Our opening prayer for this week: Jesus, I my cross have taken, all to leave and follow you. Destitute, despised, forsaken, You on earth once suffered, too. Perish every fond ambition, all I’ve sought or hoped or known; Yet how rich is my condition! God and heaven are still my own. Let the world despise and leave me, they have left my Savior, too. Human hearts and looks deceive me; You are not, like them, untrue. And while you shall smile upon me, God of wisdom, love and might, Foes may hate and friends disown me— show your face and all is bright. Go, then, earthly fame and treasure! Come, disaster, scorn and pain! In your service, pain is pleasure; with your favor, loss is gain. I have called you, “Abba, Father”; you my all in all shall be. Storms may howl, and clouds may gather; all must work for good to me. Man may trouble and distress me; ’twill but drive me to your breast. Life with trials hard m...

   5-days-a-week through Romans and the letters Paul wrote from Rome in 2024 Our opening prayer for this week: Jesus, I my cross have taken, all to leave and follow you. Destitute, despised, forsaken, You on earth once suffered, too. Perish every fond ambition, all I’ve sought or hoped or known; Yet how rich is my condition! God and heaven are still my own. Let the world despise and leave me, they have left my Savior, too. Human hearts and looks deceive me; You are not, like them, untrue. And while you shall smile upon me, God of wisdom, love and might, Foes may hate and friends disown me— show your face and all is bright. Go, then, earthly fame and treasure! Come, disaster, scorn and pain! In your service, pain is pleasure; with your favor, loss is gain. I have called you, “Abba, Father”; you my all in all shall be. Storms may howl, and clouds may gather; all must work for good to me. Man may trouble and distress me; ’twill but drive me to your breast. Life with trials hard m...

  5-days-a-week through Romans and the letters Paul wrote from Rome in 2024 Our opening prayer for this week: Jesus, tempted in the desert, Lonely, hungry, filled with dread: “Use your pow’r,” the tempter tells him; “Turn these barren rocks to bread.   “Not alone by bread, he answers, “Can the human heart be filled. Only by the Word of mercy Is our deepest hunger stilled!” Jesus, tempted in the temple, High above its ancient wall: “Throw yourself from lofty turret; Angels wait to break your fall!”   Jesus shuns such empty marvels, Feats that fickle crowds request: “God, whose grace protects, preserves us, We must never vainly test.” Jesus, tempted on the mountain By the lure of vast domain: “Fall before me! Be my servant! Glory you are sure to gain!” Jesus sees the dazzling vision, Turns his eyes another way: “God alone deserves our homage! God alone I will obey!” When we face temptation’s power, Lonely, struggling, filled with dread, Christ, who knew the devil’...

  5-days-a-week through Romans and the letters Paul wrote from Rome in 2024 Our opening prayer for this week: Jesus, tempted in the desert, Lonely, hungry, filled with dread: “Use your pow’r,” the tempter tells him; “Turn these barren rocks to bread.   “Not alone by bread, he answers, “Can the human heart be filled. Only by the Word of mercy Is our deepest hunger stilled!” Jesus, tempted in the temple, High above its ancient wall: “Throw yourself from lofty turret; Angels wait to break your fall!”   Jesus shuns such empty marvels, Feats that fickle crowds request: “God, whose grace protects, preserves us, We must never vainly test.” Jesus, tempted on the mountain By the lure of vast domain: “Fall before me! Be my servant! Glory you are sure to gain!” Jesus sees the dazzling vision, Turns his eyes another way: “God alone deserves our homage! God alone I will obey!” When we face temptation’s power, Lonely, struggling, filled with dread, Christ, who knew the devil’...

5-days-a-week through Romans and the letters Paul wrote from Rome in 2024 Our opening prayer for this week: Jesus, tempted in the desert, Lonely, hungry, filled with dread: “Use your pow’r,” the tempter tells him; “Turn these barren rocks to bread.   “Not alone by bread, he answers, “Can the human heart be filled. Only by the Word of mercy Is our deepest hunger stilled!” Jesus, tempted in the temple, High above its ancient wall: “Throw yourself from lofty turret; Angels wait to break your fall!”   Jesus shuns such empty marvels, Feats that fickle crowds request: “God, whose grace protects, preserves us, We must never vainly test.” Jesus, tempted on the mountain By the lure of vast domain: “Fall before me! Be my servant! Glory you are sure to gain!” Jesus sees the dazzling vision, Turns his eyes another way: “God alone deserves our homage! God alone I will obey!” When we face temptation’s power, Lonely, struggling, filled with dread, Christ, who knew the devil’s hour,...

5-days-a-week through Romans and the letters Paul wrote from Rome in 2024 Our opening prayer for this week:           Jesus, tempted in the desert, Lonely, hungry, filled with dread: “Use your pow’r,” the tempter tells him; “Turn these barren rocks to bread.   “Not alone by bread, he answers, “Can the human heart be filled. Only by the Word of mercy Is our deepest hunger stilled!” Jesus, tempted in the temple, High above its ancient wall: “Throw yourself from lofty turret; Angels wait to break your fall!”   Jesus shuns such empty marvels, Feats that fickle crowds request: “God, whose grace protects, preserves us, We must never vainly test.” Jesus, tempted on the mountain By the lure of vast domain: “Fall before me! Be my servant! Glory you are sure to gain!” Jesus sees the dazzling vision, Turns his eyes another way: “God alone deserves our homage! God alone I will obey!” When we face tempt...

5-days-a-week through Romans and the letters Paul wrote from Rome in 2024 Our opening prayer for this week:           Jesus, tempted in the desert, Lonely, hungry, filled with dread: “Use your pow’r,” the tempter tells him; “Turn these barren rocks to bread.   “Not alone by bread, he answers, “Can the human heart be filled. Only by the Word of mercy Is our deepest hunger stilled!” Jesus, tempted in the temple, High above its ancient wall: “Throw yourself from lofty turret; Angels wait to break your fall!”   Jesus shuns such empty marvels, Feats that fickle crowds request: “God, whose grace protects, preserves us, We must never vainly test.” Jesus, tempted on the mountain By the lure of vast domain: “Fall before me! Be my servant! Glory you are sure to gain!” Jesus sees the dazzling vision, Turns his eyes another way: “God alone deserves our homage! God alone I will obey!” When we face tempt...

5-days-a-week through Romans and the letters Paul wrote from Rome in 2024 Our opening prayer for this week: O Splendor of God's glory bright, You daily bring forth light from light. O Light from Light, light's fountain-spring, O Day, our days enlightening: Come, very Sun of truth and love, Come in your radiance from above, And shed the Holy Spirit's ray On all we think or do today. Teach us to work with all our pow'r To conquer in temptation's hour. Let faith her eager fires renew And hate the false and love the true.   Oh, joyful be the livelong day, Our thoughts as pure as morning ray, Our faith like noonday's glowing height, Our souls undimmed by shades of night. All praise to God the Father be, All praise to Christ eternally, Whom with the Spirit we adore Forever and forevermore. Romans 4:13 –15 For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith. 14  If t...

5-days-a-week through Romans and the letters Paul wrote from Rome in 2024 Our opening prayer for this week: O Splendor of God's glory bright, You daily bring forth light from light. O Light from Light, light's fountain-spring, O Day, our days enlightening: Come, very Sun of truth and love, Come in your radiance from above, And shed the Holy Spirit's ray On all we think or do today. Teach us to work with all our pow'r To conquer in temptation's hour. Let faith her eager fires renew And hate the false and love the true.   Oh, joyful be the livelong day, Our thoughts as pure as morning ray, Our faith like noonday's glowing height, Our souls undimmed by shades of night. All praise to God the Father be, All praise to Christ eternally, Whom with the Spirit we adore Forever and forevermore. Romans 4:9 –12 Is this blessing only for the circumcised, then? Or is it also for the uncircumcised? For we say, Faith was credited to Abraham for righteousness. 10   In what way th...

5-days-a-week through Romans and the letters Paul wrote from Rome in 2024 Our opening prayer for this week: O Splendor of God's glory bright, You daily bring forth light from light. O Light from Light, light's fountain-spring, O Day, our days enlightening: Come, very Sun of truth and love, Come in your radiance from above, And shed the Holy Spirit's ray On all we think or do today. Teach us to work with all our pow'r To conquer in temptation's hour. Let faith her eager fires renew And hate the false and love the true.   Oh, joyful be the livelong day, Our thoughts as pure as morning ray, Our faith like noonday's glowing height, Our souls undimmed by shades of night. All praise to God the Father be, All praise to Christ eternally, Whom with the Spirit we adore Forever and forevermore. Romans 4:6 –8 Just as David also speaks of the blessing of the person to whom God credits righteousness apart from works: 7  Blessed are those whose lawless acts are forgiven and wh...

5-days-a-week through Romans and the letters Paul wrote from Rome in 2024 Our opening prayer for this week: O Splendor of God's glory bright, You daily bring forth light from light. O Light from Light, light's fountain-spring, O Day, our days enlightening: Come, very Sun of truth and love, Come in your radiance from above, And shed the Holy Spirit's ray On all we think or do today. Teach us to work with all our pow'r To conquer in temptation's hour. Let faith her eager fires renew And hate the false and love the true.   Oh, joyful be the livelong day, Our thoughts as pure as morning ray, Our faith like noonday's glowing height, Our souls undimmed by shades of night. All praise to God the Father be, All praise to Christ eternally, Whom with the Spirit we adore Forever and forevermore. Romans 4:1 –5 What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has found?  2   If Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about-- but not...

5-days-a-week through Romans and the letters Paul wrote from Rome in 2024 Our opening prayer for this week: Speak, O Lord, as we come to You To receive the food of your holy word. Take Your truth, plant it deep in us; Shape and fashion us in Your likeness, That the light of Christ might be seen today In our acts of love and our deeds of faith. Speak, O Lord, and fulfil in us All Your purposes, for Your glory. Teach us, Lord, full obedience, Holy reverence, true humility. Test our thoughts and our attitudes In the radiance of Your purity. Cause our faith to rise Cause our eyes to see, Your majestic love and authority. Words of power that can never fail; Let their truth prevail over unbelief. Speak, O Lord, and renew our minds; Help us grasp the heights of Your plans for us. Truths unchanged from the dawn of time, That will echo down through eternity. And by grace we’ll stand on Your promises; And by faith we’ll walk as You walk with us. Speak, O Lord, ’til your church is built And the e...