Tag: postmillennialism

  • Daily Devotional: Ephesians 1:13-23

    Daily Devotional: Ephesians 1:13-23

    The saints believed the gospel message when they heard it and were sealed in Christ by the giving of the Holy Spirit. A seal is something placed on an official letter making that letter the property of one person. If anyone other than the approved person breaks that seal, consequences ensue. King Jesus’s seal is…

  • Daily Devotional: Romans 16:16-27

    Daily Devotional: Romans 16:16-27

    Paul encourages Greek Christians in Rome to greet one another with a holy kiss and tells them that the churches outside of Rome greet them as brothers and sisters. While I understand the need to teach teenagers to side-hug and the reservation adults have when interacting with one-another, we learn in Scripture that the Christian…

  • Daily Devotional: Romans 10:1-11

    Daily Devotional: Romans 10:1-11

    After writing about God’s work of predestination, Paul, still referring to Jews who were not predestined, shares his desire that they be saved. They have a zeal for God, but their zeal is without understanding. They are trying to establish their own righteousness instead of resting in God’s righteousness—something many religious people in every context…

  • Daily Devotional: Romans 8:18-25

    Daily Devotional: Romans 8:18-25

    Paul describes the present sufferings of the world. While many religious people describe the same sufferings with angst, Paul describes them with hope and optimism. He claims that the creation, that’s all of creation and not merely people who are being saved, waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God. The creation longs…

  • Juneteenth and the Gospel

    Juneteenth and the Gospel

    The news of Republican, or National Union, Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation reached Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865 “the year of our Lord” and has been annually celebrated since. Juneteenth stands as a beacon to equality and freedom in the United States and has recently been designated a federal holiday. Juneteenth is inherently conservative, Christian,…