Adam's Fall and Our Fall

Adam’s Fall and Our Fall

Your year-end generosity to Enduring Word is appreciated. Click here to donate. Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned. (Romans 5:12) Among many today, a literal belief in Adam and Eve is unfashionable. Yet, if we are to […]

What Grace Is and Isn't

What Grace Is and Isn’t

Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt. But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness. (Romans 4:4-5) Maybe it was Augustine who said, “What is grace? I know until you ask me. When you […]

Bad News and Good News

Bad News and Good News

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus (Romans 3:23-24) In Romans 3, Paul explains the bad news – all humanity is, by nature, guilty of breaking God’s law and therefore in wrong relationship with Him. He […]