Passage: Romans 10:9

I've heard many plans of salvation, formulas for getting saved. Paul says it's really pretty simple: Righteousness, that is salvation itself, is a given to us as a gift from God's grace that we grasp by faith. Paul is straightforward, ...if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Romans 10:9 (NIV)

 Passage: Luke 24:46

Jesus calls for radical repentance, in the best and basic sense of the word radical. The English word derives from the Latin redix with was the word for root. It related not only to plants and mathematics, but in a more general way to the origin and that which is fundamental to something's existence. In Scripture, repentance refers to that which is fundamental to the very existence of the gospel and those who believe it. So preaching repentance really is radical!

 Passage: Acts 5:30-31

 Passage: Genesis 11:31-12:5

How important is this small word "had"? How many times "had" God spoken to Abram? How long "had"he been in Harran? Why "Had" he stayed in Harran? Why "had" the Lord said this to Abram?

 Passage: Luke 5:23-24

Some me in the Galilean village of Capernaum brought their paralytic friend to Jesus. Four of them made a hole in the roof of the crowded house in which Jesus was teaching and lowered him down on a mat in front of Jesus. Matthew, Mark, and Luke all tell the same story (Matthew 9:2-8; Mark 2:1-12; Luke 5:17-26). And they all say Jesus did something amazing.