First Baptist Family of Asheboro, NC

God wants us to know how to live.   We don’t always know how.   Would you say you know how to live?   We forget how difficult it was in our younger days.   Once upon a time we all ate dirt!   We’ve all done it.   Someone had to teach us at one point in time, “This is dirt!   It’s not food!   It’s dirt!”   When we learn to follow Christ we have to learn how to live.   Paul is describing what it looks like to live in Christ in Romans 8.   We learn what it means to really be free, to live. Now is the time to live.              “There is therefore now” Romans 8.1 (ESV) God wants us to have abundant life.   “Now” is alerting us to a time change.   We are talking about the present.   We talk about a future change where we have eternal life, but there’s a present change too.   The first seven chapters of Romans are about salvation and how God restores us in the power of the cross and the grace of God.   Since Jesus has stepped into our lives we are ready to live.   Liste

Have you ever felt like you’re your own worst enemy?   Have you felt like you’re getting frustrated with things you’re doing that keep getting you stuck in life?   This past winter I was driving into town behind a vehicle.   We approached the last hill and the tires started spinning on the vehicle in front of me.   They eventually got stuck.   They couldn’t go forward or backwards, just stuck! We can get stuck spiritually.   Paul is speaking to us about being spiritually stuck.   A personal spiritual struggle in revealed by Paul in Romans 7.   It’s an inside view.   Paul felt stuck.   He is his own worst enemy.   Maybe you’re in this spot today?   How do we get unstuck?   We want to do what’s right but we don’t.   There’s honesty in Paul’s words.   This is very straight forward and doesn’t need explanation.   This isn’t Paul reaching into the Old Testament.   This is Paul talking about his own walk with Jesus. I really want to do what is right, but I don’t.         

Sharing as They Travel: (Written by Lee King) We had a couple of opportunities along the way to share the gospel. Cheryl spoke with a man on the trip from Raleigh to Boston. During our 10 hour layover in Boston, Nathan had the opportunity to share the gospel with a man and present him a Gideon New Testament. It turns out that the man Nathan shared the gospel with was the same man that Cheryl had spoken with. On the trip from Doha to Yerevan I (Lee) sat next to a lady who is a member of the Armenian Apostolic Church in Glendale, California. She heard me sharing with Nathan how to greet people in Armenian. She spoke with me and said that I did not look Armenian and wanted to know where I had learned speak it. This led to a 4 hour conversation during which she shared her life story, her troubles, health issues, fears, and concerns. I was able to respond to each item with some scripture and discussion. She then made the statement that she was waiting for a sign from God. I resp