by Pastor Bumble | Nov 7, 2025 | Romans
Rethinking Diaspora through Romans 9–11 Co Nghiep Ho, Redemption Point ChurchPaper presented at the First Vietnamese Diaspora Theological Conference (read this in Vietnamese, or download the PDF)Midway City, California, November 8, 2025 Abstract The Jubilee 50th...
by Pastor Bumble | Jun 18, 2024 | Devo, Romans
Is the story over? 24Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin. Romans 7:24–25 (NIV) The...
by Pastor Bumble | Jun 18, 2024 | Devo, Romans
Why are we struggling with sins (and not surrendering)? 16Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. 17So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me… 20Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it,...
by Pastor Bumble | Jun 18, 2024 | Devo, Romans
Why are we still struggling with sins? 14For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. 15For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. 16Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with...
by Pastor Bumble | Jun 16, 2024 | Devo, Romans
What does it mean when we were “alive apart from the law”? 8But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead. 9Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the...
by Pastor Bumble | Jun 16, 2024 | Devo, Romans
What is the purpose of God’s law if it can’t save us? 7What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law...
