Jeff Duncan

Romans 12:11-13 “Dead churches are churches in which the Gospel is not proclaimed. If the Gospel is being proclaimed, the church is living. It may be stodgy. It may be tacky. It may be awkward. If the gospel is not being preached, however, it matters not if everyone...

Romans 12:10 Main Point: Love genuinely by seeing the church as your family, and then outdoing one another in showing honor. I. Love genuinely by seeing the church as your family 12:10a II. Love genuinely by outdoing one another in showing honor 12:10b ...

Romans 12:9 Main Point: Love truly by hating all evil and holding fast to all good. I. Love truly by hating all that is evil. “True love is not a directionless emotion or something that can only be felt but not expressed. Love is not genuine when it leads a person to...

Romans 12:4-8 Main Point: Strive to be a humble servant that embraces both the unity and the diversity of the body of Christ. You were saved to serve. I. Embrace the Unity of the One Body of Christ - vv. 4-5. II. Embrace the Diversity of the One Body of Christ - vv....

Romans 12:3 Main Point: Think rightly by putting off pride and putting on biblical humility.  I. Beware of Pride - v. 3a “There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,...

Romans 12:1-2 Main Point: On the basis of God’s mercy to us in Christ, our duty is to offer ourselves as a living sacrifice to God.  I. Christ’s Call to Discipleship - v. 1. 2 Cor. 5:14-15 For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that...

Romans 11:33-36 Main Point: God’s amazing grace causes us to look back on our redemption with a humble awe that gives all of the glory to God.  I. The Wow of Redemption - v. 33. Eph 2:1-3.  Eph. 2:4-9. Eph. 2:10 Eph. 2:19-22 II. The Humility of Redemption - vv....

 Romans 11:28-32  God is faithful to His promises to be merciful to a disobedient people from both the Jews and the Gentiles.

 Romans 11:25-27  Embrace the mystery of election and know that God will save all of His people from both the Gentiles and Israel.

 Romans 11:17-24 Cultivate humility by embracing both justice and grace. Tremble and trust in Christ alone.  “The excision, of which he speaks, could not apply to individuals, whose election is unchangeable, based on the eternal purpose of God.” – John Calvin “Paul...

 Romans 11:16-18 If you are connected to God’s holy root, then you are holy in His sight. 

Romans 11:11-15  God will make Israel jealous in order to restore them through the gospel. “The salvation of ‘all Israel’ will be the climax of this age and will be followed by the resurrection.” – Thomas Schreiner “At the climax of this age, her (Israel) hardening...