Romans

16:17-27 - Live Victoriously

February 23, 2020 • Mike DuBard

16:1-16 - Live Affirmingly

February 9, 2020 • Mike DuBard

Our affirmation of others should be rooted in the fact that they are created in the image of God, being changed by the gospel of God, so that the result is always and only the glory of God.

15:22-33 - Live Mission Minded (Part 2)

February 2, 2020 • Mike DuBard

Sometimes we never arrive where we believe God is leading us. Sometimes there are good things in my life that I am pursuing for the right reasons, but for some reason, God does not let me experience that. To us getting to the destination is the most important thing. However, God views the journey as much more important. As one writer states, "it is in the journey that we are perfected, and it is in hardships that God is glorified as we trust him.”

15:14-21 - Live Mission Minded (Part 1)

January 26, 2020 • Mike DuBard

God is a missionary God, and he has chosen to accomplish this mission by working through us, his people. We serve God by reaching others with the Gospel because God has reached us with the Gospel.

15:7-13 - Live Acceptingly

January 19, 2020 • Mike DuBard

In light of the Gospel and how we have been welcomed and accepted undeservedly, only because God in his mercy chose to, we should, in the same way, be welcoming and accepting of one another.

15:1-6 - Live Selflessly

December 29, 2019 • Mike DuBard

14:13-23 - Live Horizontally

December 15, 2019 • Mike DuBard

Everything we do should be motivated by the Gospel and all that God has done. Our motivation is vertical, but our living out that motivation is horizontal as we walk alongside one another.

14:1-12 - Live Vertically

December 8, 2019 • Mike DuBard

How can those within the body of Christ who disagree so much still pursue unity without condemnation or judgment of one another?

13:8-14 - Live Lovingly

December 1, 2019 • Mike DuBard

Because of who you are in light of God's great love for you, you should love others. Loving our neighbors as ourselves is the greatest command because it is the heart and the motivation that leads us to the obedience of all that God has commanded.

13:1-7 - Live Submissively

November 17, 2019 • Mike DuBard

Our political ideology does not dictate our submission to civil authority, what political party we belong to, or whether or not we even agree with the acting government. Still, instead, it is dictated by our spiritual identity. We serve as sojourners here under the authority God has allowed in this flawed, imperfect physical kingdom while knowing that we are already citizens of a perfect, spiritual, eternal kingdom.

12:17-21 - Loving In Light Of The Gospel Part 3

November 10, 2019 • Mike DuBard

How do we live in a world that defines and practices love very differently than Jesus commanded us to love as followers of Christ? Loving in light of the gospel means we love others not in response to what they do or don’t do to us, but rather in response to what God has and will do for us.

12:13-16 - Loving In Light Of The Gospel Part 2

November 3, 2019 • Mike DuBard

Love. It’s what God demonstrated when he sent Jesus to die on a cross to take our place, and it’s what should motivate us to go and demonstrate it to others, but what does loving in light of the gospel look like?

12:9-13 - Loving In Light Of The Gospel Part 1

October 27, 2019 • Mike DuBard

There is no doubt that the love of Christ is what must motivate our living for Christ. It doesn’t matter what else we do. It doesn’t matter if we are faithful to do everything else Paul says in these last five chapters, if it is not done motivated by love, then we are not faithful to live in light of the gospel.

12:3-8 - Live Thinking Rightly

October 20, 2019 • Mike DuBard

When we think rightly about the gospel, we should grow in thinking more rightly about ourselves, our identity, our purpose. We should think more rightly about our gifts and how we are to use those gifts in the context of the body of Christ.

12:1-2 - Live Sacrificially

October 13, 2019 • Mike DuBard

In light of Jesus' life sacrificed for us, we should live all of life sacrificially for him.