A curated series inside Whispering Pines Church.
May 12, 2024 4:30 AM America/Denver
Join us this Mother’s Day as we celebrate mothers! As a community of believers, we are so grateful for the mothers in our lives who have led a life of faith, inspired us, motivated us, and have demonstrated passionate loving kindness to each of us. Join
May 5, 2024 4:30 AM America/Denver
In Romans 15, Paul concludes his commands for the weak and the strong in the Roman church. Paul urges us to be inclusive and to edify one another with our actions. He strengthens his argument by appealing to the attitude of Christ. The Christians of Rome
Apr 28, 2024 4:30 AM America/Denver
Romans 14 begins the longest single discourse in all of the Pauline letters. It is Paul’s final instruction to the Roman church. Here Paul speaks of the weak and the strong. Paul identifies himself among the “strong”, which means that the “strong
Apr 21, 2024 4:30 AM America/Denver
This week we come to Romans 13, where Paul continues his instruction on how Christians ought to live out a faith in Christ. Here, Paul writes the most lengthy passage in Scripture on how Christians should be involved with their secular government. Through
Apr 14, 2024 4:30 AM America/Denver
John us this Sunday as Daniel Martinez leads us through the remainder of Romans, Chapter 12. Here, Paul offers practical thoughts on Christian living as it pertains to life within the church. Paul begins to list off a number of imperatives – commands to
Mar 10, 2024 4:30 AM America/Denver
In Romans 12, Paul commands the Christians in Rome concerning how they are to live. Paul does not have in mind a few minor changes, but complete and total transformation for Christians. Christians are not to conform to the pattern of this age (12:2). The
Mar 3, 2024 3:30 AM America/Denver
In Romans 11, Paul asks the same question several different ways. The question is: did God reject His people? Paul answers, “By no means” because Paul himself is a Hebrew. He himself is an example of how God has not rejected the remnant of His people
Feb 25, 2024 3:30 AM America/Denver
God seems to highlight throughout the Scriptures instances where Gentiles, people who are on the outside, without knowledge of God – who when given the opportunity, respond to God more readily than God’s own people. We see this with Rahab and Ruth, wi
Feb 11, 2024 3:30 AM America/Denver
Romans 9-11 may seem to be quite the diversion from the main thrust of Paul’s letter to the church in Rome. The first 8 chapters of this book explain, explicitly, how people are made righteous, both Jews and Gentiles. The final 5 chapters of this book e
Feb 4, 2024 3:30 AM America/Denver
Romans chapter 8 begins with hopeful encouragement, and concludes with what may be one of the most compelling sections on the assurance of Christ’s love that is found in the book of Romans. It is here that we’re comforted with the truth that the Spiri
Jan 28, 2024 3:30 AM America/Denver
There are many ways that people perceive God. Some view God as some sort of employer – and so we have quotas to meet, tasks to fulfill, favor to earn. Others view God as a grand therapist – there when we need Him for spiritual advice and helpful hints
Jan 21, 2024 3:30 AM America/Denver
As we take our first steps into the second half of the book of Romans, we move from the human struggle against sin, and our desire to please God through works, to the wonderful and refreshing text of chapter 8. Here we find a most beautiful and comforting
Nov 12, 2023 3:30 AM America/Denver
Last week Paul told his readers “...we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.” (Romans 7:6) This is a bold statement, and now he h
Nov 5, 2023 3:30 AM America/Denver
This second segment of chapter 6 describes the new servanthood of believers to righteousness. Christians are freed from sin’s power for a reason, to serve righteousness. They have been brought from death to life, brought on by their new master. Follower
Oct 29, 2023 4:30 AM America/Denver
In Romans 6, Paul uses a human argument to convey the message that Christians are free from the bondage to sin. Many members of the Roman congregation, statistically, would have been slaves or former slaves. Paul does not avoid this issue but uses it to m
Oct 22, 2023 4:30 AM America/Denver
In the second half of Romans 5, Paul discusses the reign of death brought about by the sin of Adam and all human beings from Adam until Christ. All people have sinned and face death as a result. But now, the grace of God has come to believers by the grace
Oct 15, 2023 4:30 AM America/Denver
In chapter 5, Paul begins to tease out the implications of the fact that we are justified by faith in Christ. Sunday, we’ll take a look at what this beautiful reality means for us. -Daniel Martinez
Oct 8, 2023 4:30 AM America/Denver
Romans: In View of God’s Mercy 4:1-25 One of the great mysteries of the Christian faith is this: we are at the same time in the eyes of God, sinful and righteous. We are both worthy and unworthy. Both need to be held in tension. Without remembering that
Oct 1, 2023 4:30 AM America/Denver
Romans: In View of God’s Mercy 3:21-31 God is not fickle. He doesn’t change his mind. In the time leading up to Christ, He made His desires for His people clear – they should live with faithful obedience. This hasn’t changed. The requirements are
Sep 24, 2023 4:30 AM America/Denver
Romans: In View of God’s Mercy 3:1-20 It is a shame that we are not all asked more often, “Where do you place your hope?” If only to give us the opportunity to affirm that our hope is not in who we are, what our title is, the things we have done, or
Sep 17, 2023 4:30 AM America/Denver
Romans: In View of God’s Mercy 2:17-29 Growing up it was easy to think that Scripture was mainly written for other people. As I read the stories of the lepers Jesus touched and healed, prostitutes He sat with and forgave of their sins, and the thief han
Sep 10, 2023 4:30 AM America/Denver
Romans: In View of God’s Mercy 2:1-16 For the Jewish Christian living in Rome, Romans 1 would have been an anthem they could fully get behind. The Gentile world is sinful! We agree! In Romans 2, Paul turns the tables to reveal their own sinfulness and j
Sep 3, 2023 4:30 AM America/Denver
Romans: In View of God’s Mercy 1:18-32 In this second half of Romans 1, Paul sounds like the psalmist, wondering why there is such evil and sin in the world. We look for God to make right what has been so wrong. Paul is honest about sin, holding nothing
Aug 27, 2023 5:00 AM America/Denver
Romans: In View of God’s Mercy 1:1-17 Join us this Sunday as we begin a new series in the book of Romans. The letter to the Romans was written by Paul in AD 57. Here, Paul writes to churches that he has never met, never visited. Christians in Rome face