As we near the end of Acts this Sunday Paul’s road to Rome will continue to be bumpy, including storms, shipwrecks, and snake bites.
Some through the waters, some through the flood
Some through the fire, but all through the blood
Some through great sorrows, but God gives a song
In the night season and all the day long
This hymn helps us remember that as God’s redeemed people our trials will be different, but our ultimate hope as we walk through them is the same… “all through the blood.”
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written,
“For your sake we are being killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 8:31–39).
This Sunday Jason Oakes will be preaching from Acts 27:1-28:10 and Kenny Clark will be leading us in sung worship. Would you pray for each as they prepare?
See you Sunday, Grace. Come hungry!
Song of the Week
Though sorrows befall us and evils oppose
God leads His dear children along
Through grace we will conquer, no matter our foes
God leads His dear children along