Author Archives: Jefferson Vann
trouble at church
Isaiah 1:7-15a 7 Your country is deserted, your cities have been burned up with fire; your land: aliens are devouring it in your presence, and it is desolate, as if devastated by foreigners. 8 And the daughter of Zion is … Continue reading
spiritual dementia
Isaiah 1:1-6 1 A vision from Isaiah son of Amoz, which he saw with reference to Judah and Jerusalem during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. 2 Listen, sky, and discern, land, for Yahveh has … Continue reading
obstacles to maturity
Romans 16:17-27 17 Now I encourage you, brothers, to watch out for those who are causing the divisions and putting up stumbling blocks contrary to the teaching that you learned. Turn away from them! 18 Because these are the kind … Continue reading
miracle behind the myth
Romans 16:1-16 1 I am commending to you now our sister Phoebe, who is a deacon of the church in Cenchrea, 2 so that you may welcome her in the Lord in a way worthy of the saints and provide … Continue reading
Pushy Paul
Romans 15:22-33 22 This is why I was often kept from coming to you. 23 But now there is nothing more to keep me in these regions, and I have for many years desired to come to you 24 on … Continue reading
not to build on a stranger’s foundation
Romans 15:14-21 14 But I myself am fully persuaded about you, my brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another. 15 But I have written with more intensity … Continue reading
salvation for the Goyim
Romans 15:7-13 7 Welcome one another, then, just as Christ also welcomed you, so that God may be appropriately praised. 8 Because I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth in … Continue reading
with one voice
Romans 15:1-6 1 But we –the strong ones– ought to put up with the failings of the weak, and not just accommodate ourselves. 2 Each of us accommodate his neighbor for his good to build him up. 3 For even … Continue reading
awareness of the other way
Romans 14:13-23 13 For that reason, we must no longer criticize one another, but instead determine never to impede or trap a brother. 14 I know and have been persuaded in the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean in … Continue reading
fragile in the faith
Romans 14:1-12 1 Accept the one who is fragile in the faith; do not criticize and argue. 2 You believe in eating anything, but the fragile believer eats only vegetables. 3 You who eat anything must not look down on … Continue reading
