"Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel...

So what reasons did we come up with, then?We can rejoice in God because He is:* faithful* loving* forgiving* kind* life-giving* in complete control, working all things together for good* just and fair* omnipresent & always with us, never leaving us or forsaking us*...

We are not progressing very quickly through Romans 5, but maybe that's because we are finding so much in the chapter! Yesterday, we still only made it to verse 11, and we certainly lingered on that verse! "We also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through...