Romans

Let’s pray as we come to God’s Word. Heavenly Father, as you lay the bow of your Word across our ears, we ask that you would tune our hearts to sing your praise. We are easily out of tune. And if the Word comes to us and it makes a discordant sound, it is not…

Father, we do rejoice, for through Jesus the Son you have done great things, and you are continuing to do great things in our midst, in our land, in our church, in our lives. And we pray that you would do so this morning, to show us your glory in the Word, to teach us…

Pray with me one more time as we come to God’s Word. Gracious heavenly Father, we ask that our hearts might be good soil. We would not be like those for whom the seed of the Word is snatched away by the work of the evil one. It would not be swallowed up by suffering….

Let’s pray as we come to the preaching of God’s Word. Oh Lord, we confess we are hard of hearing. Give us ears. We struggle to see your glory and see our sin, so give us eyes. We do not feel what we should feel. Give us a clean heart. We are easily distracted. We…

Father in heaven, we pray because we are easily distracted. We’re thinking of the week before. We’re thinking of lunch. We’re thinking of the week to come. And even more concerning, we’re often hard-hearted. We’re hearers. We’re not really listeners. And so, we pray that your Word would sink deep into our hearts, we would…

Our text this morning is Romans chapter 3. Please turn there in your Bibles. Romans chapter 3. Our text is verses 3-8, though I’ll pick up the reading (so we can get the whole paragraph) beginning at verse 1. One commentator says about this paragraph, “It is one of the most difficult, perhaps, in the…

As we come to Paul’s letter to the Romans, let’s pray for God’s help. Give thou the hearing ear. Fix thou the wandering thought, that those we teach may hear the great things that thou hast wrought. Speak thou for us, O Lord, in all we say of thee. According to thy Word let all…

Let’s pray one more time. Our Father in heaven, we come again in prayer. I suppose it can feel like we have a lot of prayers in a service, but that’s because there are a lot of things to pray about. And so, now we need your help. We call this the prayer of illumination…

Let’s pray one more time. Gracious heavenly Father, we come to this text and to this message, and we pray, we trust not simply out of habit or custom, but I come because I’m needy, I need your help. May I decrease? May Christ increase? Would you give me the words to say: strength, the…

Let’s pray. Now he’s standing in the place of honor, crowned with glory on the highest throne, interceding for his own beloved till his Father calls to bring them home. Then the skies will part as the trumpet sounds – hope of heaven or the fear of hell. But the bride will run to her…