Northern Roads by Jeremy Norton

Tag: romans

Bible, Church, Discipleship, Ministry, NT

How to Dream a Little Bigger This Year

As we transition into a new year, a question echoes in our hearts and minds: “What’s Next?” Today, I’d like to help you with that question. Not in so much a practical sense, but in seeking God’s vision for your life. Are we willing to open ourselves to something greater? In the next few minutes, we’ll explore three spiritual practices from Romans 12, that can help us align our dreams and aspirations (maybe our New Year’s resolutions) with God’s purpose.

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Bible, Discipleship, Leadership, NT

How Do People Change After Receiving the Gospel?

Five outcomes of a transformed heart. In chapter 12 of Paul’s letter to the Roman Church, there are some unique outcomes that he lays out, on how an individual responds once they have received the Gospel of Jesus Christ. These responses or perhaps, better clarified as behavioural outcomes, are spurred on by the Holy Spirit and then lived out by the individual.

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Bible, Discipleship

WHY AM I CONSTANTLY STRUGGLING? WHY DO I CONTINUALLY FAIL?

We have a problem. We are naturally blind to our own nature, convincing ourselves that we are justified. Therein, creating a godlike existence, doing what is right in our own eyes. The point is that evolution struggles to explain why we’re not inherently good. Instead, the evidence actually shows us that humanity is inherently selfish. The same problem Adam and Eve had in the very beginning.

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Bible, Discipleship

NEWLYWEDS 2.0

When To Embrace A Second Chance Marriage. Over the past couple of months, we’ve been working through a theme: “Every Season Of Life“ We spent

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Bible, Outreach

TO HIM BE THE GLORY FOREVER

Romans Road Step #6: The End Well this is it. After 2 weeks of studying The Romans Road, we come to our final step, adequately

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Bible, Outreach

IT COMES DOWN TO CONFESSION & BELIEF

Romans Road Step #5: The Appeal Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve been focusing on an evangelism method called “The Romans Road”. If you missed previous

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Bible, Outreach

THE FORK IN THE ROAD

Romans Road Step #4: The Options The 6th chapter of Romans, we read this well-known verse: “For the wages of sin is death, but the

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Bible, Outreach

SOLVING OUR SIN PROBLEM

Romans Road Step #3: The Solution This week, we’ve been walking down The Romans Road. We took our first (1) step, “The Beginning” using Romans 1:20,

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Bible, Outreach

SELFIE-STICK TO NARCISSI-STICK

Romans Road Step #2: The Need Romans 3:23 tells us that “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God“. If you grew

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Bible, Outreach

WALKING DOWN THE ROMANS ROAD

Biblical, Practical & Evangelical There’s an age-old evangelism tool that’s been used by missions and evangelical organizations for decades. Perhaps, many of you reading this post have heard of

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Bible, Leadership

LEARNING FROM A RECOVERING LEGALIST

PAUL: The Leading Choleric Paul has been referred to as the Leading Choleric. I know, I know, once again (as I’ve done throughout this series) I’m

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Bible, Discipleship

ORPHANED SLAVES BECOME ADOPTED HEIRS

Celebrating Our Adoption – P. 3 Day 3 discussing spiritual adoption. The past few posts have been based on a sermon that I gave titled “Celebrating Our Adoption”

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