Category Archives: Uncategorized

NEW TESTAMENT CONTEXTUAL COMMENTARY Dr. Robert R. Seyda EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS CHAPTER EIGHT (Lesson XIII) Verse 8: Those who are ruled by their sinful-selves can never satisfy God. One of the last known, yet most important truths is expressed … Continue reading →

NEW TESTAMENT CONTEXTUAL COMMENTARY Dr. Robert R. Seyda EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS CHAPTER EIGHT (Lesson XII) Charles Hodge takes a similar view as Robert Haldane by agreeing that sinful mentality leads to futile living. By nature, it is opposed to … Continue reading →

NEW TESTAMENT CONTEXTUAL COMMENTARY Dr. Robert R. Seyda EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS CHAPTER EIGHT (Lesson XI) Verse 7: Why is this true? Because anyone whose mental attitude is controlled by their sinful-self is against God. They refuse to obey God’s … Continue reading →

NEW TESTAMENT CONTEXTUAL COMMENTARY Dr. Robert R. Seyda EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS CHAPTER EIGHT (Lesson X) Early church writer Ambrosiaster has more thoughts on what he understands Paul saying here in verse 6. He reckons that mankind’s intellectual propositions and … Continue reading →

NEW TESTAMENT CONTEXTUAL COMMENTARY Dr. Robert R. Seyda EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS CHAPTER EIGHT (Lesson IX) A fellow reformer of Martin Luther’s, John Calvin, more or less echoes what Luther says. For Calvin, it is only by the grace of … Continue reading →

Sam Cawthorn is a thought leader and CEO of Empowering Enterprises and featured in USA Today and The New York Times. He is an expert in not only bouncing back but bouncing forward. His main aim and goal is dedicated … Continue reading →

GOD IS NEVER TOO LATE While serving as chaplain-on-call one night at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida, my beeper woke me up around 2 AM. I called the number, and a nurse, in the Trauma Center, asked me to … Continue reading →

NEW TESTAMENT CONTEXTUAL COMMENTARY Dr. Robert R. Seyda EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS CHAPTER EIGHT (Lesson VIII) Jewish writer David Stern agrees that God had to send His Son to deal with sin because sin became such a plague in God’s … Continue reading →

NEW TESTAMENT CONTEXTUAL COMMENTARY Dr. Robert R. Seyda EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS CHAPTER EIGHT (Lesson VII) Reformed Scottish theologian Robert Haldane has an excellent exegesis on righteousness under the Law of Moses. For him, God sent His Son in the … Continue reading →

NEW TESTAMENT CONTEXTUAL COMMENTARY Dr. Robert R. Seyda EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS CHAPTER EIGHT (Lesson VI) Anglican theologian Charles Ellicott poses an important question: “How were we freed?” It is precisely on this point where the Law of Moses shows … Continue reading →