12/26/2023 0 Comments This too shall pass bible verse numberIn five quick verses, Paul articulates some of the privileges that come our way because of our relation with Christ.įirst, Paul says in verse one that a relationship with Christ, gives us the privilege of peace. Romans 5 verses 1 through 5 which form our text for today has Paul saying essentially the same thing about being a part of the family of God as followers of Jesus. As the old slogan from American Express says, “membership has its privileges”. In essence, what Smithsonian works hard to do is to convince me that the value of my subscription/membership in the Smithsonian Institute is just too good to pass up. If that were not enough, I sometimes receive a free gift and occasionally I even get a second subscription to give to friend or family member to go along with my own deeply discounted subscription. Often times, if I wait until the last minute, I barely pay a dollar per issue and I get a discount card that I can use if I visit any of the Smithsonian museums in person. What I have learned, as I suspect many of you have learned, with your own subscriptions of various types, is that the longer I hold out, the better the deal becomes. Every year at about this time, my subscription to Smithsonian Magazine runs out and I go through the yearly process of deciding whether to renew it or not. In many ways Smithsonian is a history magazine but it also features articles on world events, science, technology, the arts and other subjects that are in some way connected to the work and research of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. The other magazine I subscribe to is Smithsonian Magazine. I have subscribed to Christianity Today off and on now for almost 25 years. One is Christianity Today which comes to the church once a month and is a longstanding magazine focused on the church, the life of faith and the major current issues and world events that we as believers should be thinking about and wrestling with at this time. That’s In The Bible Somewhere…: This Too Shall Pass Romans 5:1-5
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